Scholars and courtiers : intellectuals and society in the medieval West
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Scholars and courtiers : intellectuals and society in the medieval West
(Variorum collected studies series, CS753)
Ashgate, c2002
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The creative and intellectual life of the early and high Middle Ages in the West was sustained by learned worldly clerics. Their rich culture was slow to be discovered in its fullness partly because church history tended to dominate perspectives on clerical life, while the chivalric literature of the courts was seen as reflecting values and ideals of secular culture, however busy clerical authors may have been in the recording of it. These essays bring new approaches to these questions, showing the deep and decisive engagement of clerical 'scholars and courtiers' in the major realms of medieval secular intellectual and social life. Medieval humanism, cathedral school education, courtly love and courtesy, and the 'renaissance' of the 12th century are among the topics covered. 'Orpheus in the Eleventh Century' illuminates the function and nature of Latin poetry in both the schools and society, two essays focus on Abelard, while others reconsider the historical relationship of 11th-century worldly culture to that of the 12th. The author suggests a cultural unity of schools, cathedral communities, and secular courts, created by this class of scholar/courtiers.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Scholars: The Latin Culture: Cathedral schools and humanist learning, 950-1150
- Orpheus in the 11th century
- Humanism and ethics at the school of St Victor in the early 12th century
- Peter Abelard's silence at the Council of Sens
- The prologue to the Historia calamitatum [of Peter Abelard] and the `authenticity question'
- Courtiers and Courtly Society: Patrons and the beginnings of courtly romance
- Courtliness and social change
- L'amour des rois: structure sociale d'une forme de sensibilite aristocratique
- The Unity of School and Court Cultures: Charismatic body - charismatic text
- The courtier bishop in Vitae from the 10th to the 12th century
- Beauty of manners and discipline (Schoene Site, Zuht): an imperial tradition of courtliness in the German romance
- The text as a symbol of decadence
- Index.
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