Scholars and Courtiers: Intellectuals and Society in the Medieval West

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-86078-879-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Gewicht: 602 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaeger, C. Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 sensibilité 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.