Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages

Name: Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages
Author: Peter Godman

Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet

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Gebonden, 242 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2009

ISBN13: 9780521519113

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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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ISBN13:9780521519113

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Gebonden

Aantal pagina's:242

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Serie:Cambridge Studies in

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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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