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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 2009 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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages
• Subtitle: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet
• Author: Peter Godman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9781107412613
• ISBN: 1107412617
• ID: 02051816
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. January 2013

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