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The Goliard poets : medieval Latin songs and satires / with verse translation by George F. Whicher.

Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Latin Publication details: [Norfolk, Conn.] : [New Directions], 1949 Description: 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 879.1082
LOC classification:
  • PA8164 .G6
Contents:
Golias and his tribe -- Sedulius Scottus -- The Cambridge songs -- Author unknown, possibly Peter Abelard -- Hugo of Orleans, known as Primas -- The archpoet of Cologne -- Walter of Châtillon -- Carmina Burana -- The last of Golias.
Summary: "These mocking, irreverent verses, written in Latin by the vagabond scholars of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, furnish a wittily vineous commentary on the social and moral climate of medieval Europe. Whether (the scholars are not certain) Golias was the biblical giant Goliath or a personification of the sin of gluttony (Gula) matters little: these rollicking ballads which students still sing in the beer-cellars are a joy for all time. Recently they have achieved new fame and popularity through the composer Carl Orff's use of them in his cantata "Carmina Burana."--Back cover.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PA 8164 .G6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 84318

"Limited bi-lingual edition."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Golias and his tribe -- Sedulius Scottus -- The Cambridge songs -- Author unknown, possibly Peter Abelard -- Hugo of Orleans, known as Primas -- The archpoet of Cologne -- Walter of Châtillon -- Carmina Burana -- The last of Golias.

"These mocking, irreverent verses, written in Latin by the vagabond scholars of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, furnish a wittily vineous commentary on the social and moral climate of medieval Europe. Whether (the scholars are not certain) Golias was the biblical giant Goliath or a personification of the sin of gluttony (Gula) matters little: these rollicking ballads which students still sing in the beer-cellars are a joy for all time. Recently they have achieved new fame and popularity through the composer Carl Orff's use of them in his cantata "Carmina Burana."--Back cover.

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