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  3. Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 September 2009
      04 June 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511581090
      9780521519113
      9781107412613
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511581090
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 242 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 242 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (75)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (75)
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    The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral identity could be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of primary importance, and Peter Godman here restores them to the prominence they once occupied in twelfth-century thought. This book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the work of the most famous authors of the Latin Middle Ages. Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and form, it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval conscience.

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