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OverviewThis is the first monograph to be published about one of the most famous and least understood authors of the Latin Middle Ages. We know him by the pseudonym of Archpoet. Setting the Archpoet's world and works in their historical contexts, Peter Godman argues that they provide insight into a brilliant counter-culture of medieval Germany. Its subtlest exponent did not indulge in literary play but refashioned the political, social, and religious roles available to a twelfth-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe. At a time when Germans were being decried as backward barbarians, he produced a manifesto of intellectual heterodoxy which wittily challenged the truth-claims made by humourless moralists. The Archpoet and Medieval Culture reconsiders the categoriesin which the literature of the Middle Ages is interpreted and suggests a less literal mode of reading the sources to historians. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter GodmanPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.604kg ISBN: 9780198719229ISBN 10: 0198719221 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 30 October 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsI: Prelude in the Pub II: The Ruin of the World III: Culture and Conflict in the Chancery IV: Transmontane Identity V: 'A Depraved Man Sowing Tares' VI: The Anti-Actor VII: The Reluctant Encomiast VIII: The Penitent at Pavia IX: The Preacher of Sin X: The Roving Prophet XI: The Culture of the Barbarians XIII:ReviewsAuthor InformationPeter Godman is a cultural historian of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with interests in the Latin tradition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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