Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet - Couverture souple

Godman, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107412617 ISBN 13 : 9781107412613

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the Middle Ages.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107412617
• ISBN 13: 9781107412613
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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