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

Godman, Peter

 
9781107412613: Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet

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

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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Moral moments; 2. The neurotic and the penitent; 3. True, false, and feigned penance; 4. Fame without conscience; 5. Cain and conscience; 6. Feminine paradoxes; 7. Sincere hypocrisy; 8. The poetical conscience; Envoi: spiritual sophistry.

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9780521519113: Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  052151911X ISBN 13:  9780521519113
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009
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