Scherzrede und Kampf: Vollzugsformen von hövescheit und mann-männlichen Bindungsformen in Partonopier und Meliûr

Abstract

Abstract The article examines male-coded jest and mockery speeches as well as stagings of chivalric combat in Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier und Meliûr as complementary performances of hövescheit, dealing with the ambivalence and dynamics of male-to-male bonding between equality, agonality and hierarchy, rivalry and friendship. In this context, the functionally subordinate difference of faith becomes a test case for the validity of hövescheit.