Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages : Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet
by
Peter Godman
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10
052151911X
ISBN-13
9780521519113
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 4th, 2009
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
53 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 16.00 x 1.80 cms
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Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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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 contribution to the unwritten history of the medieval conscience.
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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