This study of historical semantics and early modern-age literary
history delineates the way in which ideas about marriage, love and
friendship changed radically from the 15th to the 16th century.
Taking its bearings from systems and discourse theory, it examines
tractates and fictional literature. Georg Wickram's prose romances
take up the discourse on marriage to be found in moral theology and
in stark contrast to earlier romances instantiate new forms of
passionate love and friendship. As such they respond to the
increasing isolation of the individual in the wake of the
thoroughgoing reorganization of (German) society at that time, a
phenomenon reflected both in the AFortunatusA romance and in the
course of actual historical developments.
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