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Paradoxes of conscience in the High Middle Ages : Abelard, Heloise, and the archpoet /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Godman, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 75.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Moral moments
  • The neurotic and the penitent
  • True, false, and feigned penance
  • Fame without conscience
  • Cain and conscience
  • Feminine paradoxes
  • Sincere hypocrisy
  • The poetical consience
  • Envoi : spiritual sophistry.