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Loleit, Simone: Frauen als Fake News-Produzentinnen? Beobachtungen an zwei spätmittelalterlichen Schwänken, in Bubert, Marcel and Doering, Pia Claudia (Eds.): Fake News im Mittelalter? Zur kulturellen Aushandlung von Falschheit in politischen, religiösen und literarischen Diskursen, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2026 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 22), p. 207–230. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1552.c24227

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Simone Loleit

Frauen als Fake News-Produzentinnen?

Beobachtungen an zwei spätmittelalterlichen Schwänken

Abstract The paper discusses the Märe ‘The roast hare’ by the Vriolsheimer (probably 13th century), an adapta­tion of the Old French Fabliau ‘The Partridges’, and Hein­rich Steinhöwelʼs ‘A woman accuses her husband of not having one’, a translation of Poggioʼs facetia no. 43. As is presented in detail, both tales exhibit features similar to main criteria of the current concept of fake news and differ in this regard significantly from their respective sources. The analysis aims at examining functions and meanings of fictitious fake news in the ambiguous area between false information and satire, mainly concentrating on the issue that the fake is (supposedly) created by women. Here as­sociated issues are taken into account, namely the role of the audience and of the public as well as the reversal of the (gender) order as an epitome of the infringement of ordo and inverted hierarchy.

Keywords verse narrative; jest narrative; gender