PARADOXES OF CONSCIENCE IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES. ABELARD, HELOISE AND THE ARCHPOET

GODMAN, P.

ISBN 10: 052151911X / ISBN 13: 9780521519113

Published by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2009

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GODMAN, P.: PARADOXES OF CONSCIENCE IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES. ABELARD, HELOISE AND THE ARCHPOET. CAMBRIDGE, 2009, xiv 224 p. , 535 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (NB-8-2) 535 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PARADOXES OF CONSCIENCE IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES. ABELARD, HELOISE AND THE ARCHPOET
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052151911X
• ISBN 13: 9780521519113
• Binding: Encuadernación de tapa blanda
• Condition: Nuevo
• Weight: 535 grams
• Book Type: Libro
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literatura medieval
  • Historia medieval

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

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.