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

Godman, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1107412617 ISBN 13: 9781107412613

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Riassunto

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.

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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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107412617
• ISBN 13: 9781107412613
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 242