The silent masters : Latin literature and its censors in the High Middle Ages / Peter Godman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godman, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern--Censorship.

Censorship--Europe--History--To 1500.

Censorship.

Humanists--Europe.

Humanists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

I. The Silencer and the Silenced

II. Unbuttoned Dwarves

III. Teaching by Fire and Sword

IV. Smoldering Firebrands

V. Soft Beatings

VI. Archness

VII. The Open Work

VIII. The Polymath and the Fool

IX. The Handle of the Knife

Bibliography of Primary Sources

Index of Quotations

General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-355) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613379542

9781283379540

1283379546

9781400823604

1400823609

9781400814282

1400814286

OCLC:

775873108