Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet (Hardcover)

Peter Godman

ISBN 10: 052151911X / ISBN 13: 9780521519113

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009

Beschreibung

Hardcover. 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 052151911X
• ISBN-13: 9780521519113
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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