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Despite some tendencies in more recent research, there is still a need for a close linking of research in the history of emotionality with questions in media theory. This is the starting point for the present volume, which enquires into the effects on contemporary concepts of love of the "scriptorality" of European culture in the period from the 11th to 15th centuries. The various papers on medieval Latin, German and Italian literature focus not only on the materiality and pragmatics of the medium, but also the concept of mediality and the written tradition

Abstract
The article demonstrates how art and technique in the patristic discourse of antiquity are interpreted as strategies of making things verfügbar and associating them with the devil: this is shown in two image conceptions of Christian-theological discourse which are embodied in an exemplary way, on the one hand, by the idolater and tyrannical world conqueror Ninus and, on the other, by the dominator of demons, Zoroaster (Zarathustra). A central hypothesis is that those image reflections which are shaped following a Christian model are not determined by the interest in their production: they focus on the receptional level on which art can be effective as the object of a specific perception ad malam or ad bonam partem.

Hauptbeschreibung: Was ist eine Gabe? Löschen Tauschcharakter und Reziprozität die Gabe aus? Gibt es eine Gabe, die nicht erwidert werden will? Gibt es einen Überschuss des Gebens über die Gabe hinaus? Der Band untersucht solche und benachbarte Fragen, die aus den einschlägigen Theoriediskussionen bekannt sind, an literarischen Modellierungen von Liebesgaben in vormodernen Texten. Im Liebesdiskurs, so scheint es, können Gaben einen besonders prekären Status erhalten: kann hier doch eine Tausch-, Substitutions- und Vergeltungslogik zur Anwendung kommen auf das, was gemeinhin als inkommensurabel