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Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet: 75 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 75) - Hardcover

Book 21 of 61: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Godman, Peter

 
9780521519113: Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet: 75 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 75)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 052151911X ISBN 13: 9780521519113
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral identity could be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of primary importance, and Peter Godman here restores them to the prominence they once occupied in twelfth-century thought. This book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the work of the most famous authors of the Latin Middle Ages. Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and form, it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval conscience.

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About the Author

Peter Godman is Distinguished Professor of the Intellectual History and Latin Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Rome (La Sapienza).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
052151911X
ISBN 13 
9780521519113
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
242