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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157842003321

Autore

Godman Peter

Titolo

The Archpoet and medieval culture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-178849-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

871.03

Soggetti

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

Languages & Literatures

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Germany History 843-1273

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelude in the pub -- The ruin of the world -- Culture and conflict in the chancery -- Transmontane identity -- 'A depraved man sowing tares' -- The anti-actor -- The reluctant encomiast -- The penitent at Pavia -- The preacher of sin -- The roving prophet -- The culture of the Barbarians.

Sommario/riassunto

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 12th-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe.