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1 online resource (xx, 372 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism
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Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Censorship
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Censorship -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Humanists -- Europe
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Censorship.
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Censorship
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Humanists
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Latin literature, Medieval and modern
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Europe
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1400814286 |
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9781400814282 |
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9781400823604 |
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1400823609 |
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