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    The Archpoet and Medieval Culture by Godman, Peter;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 30 October 2014

    • ISBN 9780198719229
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages296 pages
    • Size 236x163x23 mm
    • Weight 604 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    The Archpoet and Medieval Culture is the first book on the most important, and least understood, Latin poet of the Middle Ages.

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    Long description:

    This is the first monograph to be published about one of the most famous and least understood authors of the Latin Middle Ages. We know him by the pseudonym of Archpoet. Setting the Archpoet's world and works in their historical contexts, Peter Godman argues that they provide insight into a brilliant counter-culture of medieval Germany. Its subtlest exponent did not indulge in literary play but refashioned the political, social, and religious roles available to a twelfth-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe. At a time when Germans were being decried as backward barbarians, he produced a manifesto of intellectual heterodoxy which wittily challenged the truth-claims made by humourless moralists. The Archpoet and Medieval Culture reconsiders the categoriesin which the literature of the Middle Ages is interpreted and suggests a less literal mode of reading the sources to historians.

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    Table of Contents:

    Prelude in the Pub
    The Ruin of the World
    Culture and Conflict in the Chancery
    Transmontane Identity
    'A Depraved Man Sowing Tares'
    The Anti-Actor
    The Reluctant Encomiast
    The Penitent at Pavia
    The Preacher of Sin
    The Roving Prophet
    The Culture of the Barbarians

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