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The wandering scholars
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Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, Europe was Christian. The "other world" was the gold of men's lives; but the world of the here and now could not be denied completely. And ...
Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, Europe was Christian. The "other world" was the gold of men's lives; but the world of the here and now could not be denied completely. And so priests and monks, students and scholars would take to the roads and taverns, tasting and celebrating the pleasures of the senses. These "wandering scholars" and their songs are the subject of this book.
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- Creator
- Helen Waddell
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Garden City : Doubleday, 1955
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- xxxiii, 352 pages ; 19 cm
- OCLC
- ocm01125105, ocm01125105
- "Latin originals of lyrics translated in the text": pages [241]-255.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-337) and index.
- The break with the pagan tradition -- Fortunatus to Sedulius of Liege -- The tenth century -- The revival of learning in France -- Humanism in the first half of the twelfth century -- Paris and Orleans -- The archpoet -- The ordo vagorum -- The scholar's lyric -- Appendices. Latin originals of lyrics translated in the text -- Extracts from the Travelling Accounts of Bishop Wolfger of Passau, 1203-4 -- Indulgence given by Surianus, Arch-Primate of the Wandering Scholars, 1209 -- The Departing of my Books; He laments his "clergie," lost at dice -- Councils on the Clericus vagus or joculator