The Archpoet and Medieval culture /
Setting the Archpoet's world and 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Setting the Archpoet's world and 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 12th-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 280 pages .) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191788499 019178849X 9780191029967 0191029963 |