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Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages. Abelard, Heloise, and the Archpoet
No full textThe 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 is a new 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
The Archpoet and Medieval Culture
No full textThis 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 his world and his 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 humorless moralists. This book reconsiders the categories in which the literature of the Middle Ages is interpreted and suggests a less literal mode of reading the sources to historians
Pius II in the Bath: Papal Ceremony and Cultural History
No full textThis article examines Pope Pius II (1458–1464) as a performer, receiving an ambassador while being undressed for the bath in May 1460 and directing the translation of St Andrew’s head to Rome in April 1462. An analytical comparison of anti-ceremonial and ceremonious conduct at the papal court of the High Renaissance, the study challenges antitheses conventionally drawn between popular and high culture, and questions the pertinence of secular models to this pope’s theatricality. Not the humanist on the throne of St Peter whom cliché calls him, Pius II emerges as an exponent of clerical courtliness that was based on the Bible and directed towards reform of the Roman Curia. His gift for dramatic shock and surprise, which cannot be explained in terms of the ceremonial literature of the period, invites us to reflect on the traditional but inadequate distinction between the two personae of the pope that is still current in cultural history.
Godman (Peter). Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance
No full textNelson Janet L. Godman (Peter). Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 67, fasc. 4, 1989. Histoire - Geschiedenis. pp. 807-809
Peter Godman, Poets and Emperors. Frankish Politics and Carolingian Poetry
No full textBoureau Alain. Peter Godman, Poets and Emperors. Frankish Politics and Carolingian Poetry. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 45ᵉ année, N. 2, 1990. pp. 351-353
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Monaco di Baviera (a.a. 2007-2008)
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Transmontani. Frederick Barbarossa, Rainald of Dassel, and Cultural History in the German Empire
No full textL'A. presenta il formarsi in area germanica del concetto di identità culturale che inizia a nascere durante il regno del Barbarossa anche grazie all'azione e all'influenza di Rainaldo di Dassel, arcivescovo di Colonia e arcicancelliere in Italia tra il 1159 e il 1167. Tra le fonti utilizzate le lettere di Giovanni di Salisbury, l'Archipoeta, i Gesta di Ottone di Frisinga e la loro continuazione a opera di Rahewino
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