The Silent Masters
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-00977-3 (ISBN)
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In the tension between competing ideas of authority and the urge to literary experiment, writers of the High Middle Ages produced some of their most distinctive achievements. This book examines these themes in the high culture of Western Europe during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, showing how the intimate links between the writer and the censor, the inquisitor and the intellectual developed from metaphors, at the beginning of the period, to institutions at its end. All Latin texts - from Peter Abelard to Bernard of Clairvaux, from the Archpoet to John of Salisbury and Alan of Lille - are translated into English, and discussed both in terms of their literary qualities and in relation to the cultural history of the High Middle Ages. Not a proto-Renaissance but part of a continuity that reached into the Reformation, the eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a transformation of the writer's role. With a combination of literary, philological, and historical methods, Peter Godman sets the work of major intellectuals during this period in a new light.
Peter Godman is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Latin at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance (Princeton) and Poets and Emperors: Frankish Politics and Carolingian Poetry. He is the editor of Alcuin: The Bishops, Kings, and Saints of York; Latin Poetry and the Classical Tradition: Essays in Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance; and Charlemagne's Heir. His The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between Inquisition and Index and Censorship and Heresy will be published in 2000.
PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xix ABBREVIATIONS xxi I The Silencer and the Silenced 3 II Unbuttoned Dwarves 32 III Teaching by Fire and Sword 61 IV Smoldering Firebrands 107 V Soft Beatings 149 VI Archness 191 VII The Open Work 228 VIII The Polymath and the Fool 294 IX The Handle of the Knife 334 Bibliography of Primary Sources 349 Index of Quotations 357 General Index 363
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.2.2000 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 197 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 482 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-00977-5 / 0691009775 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-00977-3 / 9780691009773 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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