Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages

Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet

By:

Peter Godman

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date NZ

June 4th, 2009

Author

Peter Godman

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

242

Series

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Dimensions

160x234x18

ISBN-13

9780521519113

Product ID

3619778

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