Bibliograph

Paradoxes of conscience in the High Middle Ages, Abelard, Heloise, and the archpoet, Peter Godman

Type

Label

Paradoxes of conscience in the High Middle Ages, Abelard, Heloise, and the archpoet, Peter Godman

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Paradoxes of conscience in the High Middle Ages

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

435767817

Responsibility statement

Peter Godman

Series statement

Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 75Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

Abelard, Heloise, and the archpoet

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Moral moments -- The neurotic and the penitent -- True, false, and feigned penance -- Fame without conscience -- Cain and conscience -- Feminine paradoxes -- Sincere hypocrisy -- The poetical consience -- Envoi : spiritual sophistry

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