The Silent Masters : : Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages /

The Silent Masters : : Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages / / Peter Godman.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Godman, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2000
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of 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

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