TY  - BOOK
AU  - Godman,Peter
TI  - The Silent Masters: Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages 
SN  - 9780691009773
U1  - 363.3/1/0940902 21
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Humanists
KW  - Latin literature, Medieval and modern
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 the intimate links between the writer and the censor, the inquisitor and the intellectual developed from metaphors, at the beginning of the period, to institutions at its end. All Latin texts--from Peter Abelard to Bernard of Clairvaux, from the Archpoet to John of Salisbury and Alan of Lille--are translated into English, and discussed both in terms of their literary qualities and in relation to the cultural history of the High Middle Ages. Not a proto-Renaissance but part of a continuity that reached into the Reformation, the eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a transformation of the writer's role. With a combination of literary, philological, and historical methods, Peter Godman sets the work of major intellectuals during this period in a new light
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823604
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