An image from the 11th-13th century. Carmina Burana, Benediktbeuern Abbey, a collection of goliard love and vagabond songs
The goliards were a group of generally young clergy in Europe who wrote satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries of the Middle Ages. They were chiefly clerics who served at or had studied at the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England, who protested against the growing contradictions within the church through song, poetry and performance. Disaffected and not called to the religious life, they often presented such protests within a structured setting associated with carnival, such as the Feast of Fools, or church liturgy.[1]
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^P. Brown ed., A Companion to Chaucer (2008), p. 94.
carnal pleasures. The goliards, as scholars, often wrote their poetry in Latin. As a kind of traveling entertainer, the goliards composed many of their...
centuries sought to restrict the goliards and their excesses[which?]. These measures seem to have practically suppressed the goliards in France by the end of the...
career at the age of four, performing in plays with a company called the Goliards while his family holidayed in Devon. At the age of five, he gave his first...
and theologians. Most of the poems and songs appear to be the work of Goliards, clergy (mostly students) who satirized the Catholic Church. The collection...
Play of Daniel, which has been recently recorded at least ten times). The Goliards were itinerant poet-musicians of Europe from the tenth to the middle of...
Fools. Though often condemned, practitioners of such activities, called "Goliards", continued despite the Church's disapproval. Another result of the surplus...
is plentiful (skies that rain cheese). Cockaigne appeared frequently in Goliard verse. It represented both wish fulfillment and resentment at scarcity...
Instruments / Theory (Theorists) Movements and schools Saint Gall Saint Martial Goliard Ars antiqua Notre-Dame school Troubadour Trouvère Minnesang Ars nova Trecento...
Victor Wulfstan the Cantor? Wipo of Burgundy? High (1150–1300) Casella Goliards Minnesang Galician-Portuguese lyric List of Galician-Portuguese troubadours...
primarily with medieval Latin lyric poetry and the main part is a study of the goliards, which she worked on while a research scholar at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford...
period from the very early Armes Prydein (10th-century Britain) to the goliard rebels of 12th and 13th centuries, who were church trained clerics unable...
satires. In the Early Middle Ages, examples of satire were the songs by Goliards or vagants now best known as an anthology called Carmina Burana and made...
Victor Wulfstan the Cantor? Wipo of Burgundy? High (1150–1300) Casella Goliards Minnesang Galician-Portuguese lyric List of Galician-Portuguese troubadours...
Instruments / Theory (Theorists) Movements and schools Saint Gall Saint Martial Goliard Ars antiqua Notre-Dame school Troubadour Trouvère Minnesang Ars nova Trecento...
secular roots still being tied back to religious plays. Play of Daniel Goliards Liturgical drama "Overture". The Feast of Fools. Harvard University Press...
Instruments / Theory (Theorists) Movements and schools Saint Gall Saint Martial Goliard Ars antiqua Notre-Dame school Troubadour Trouvère Minnesang Ars nova Trecento...
between religious and secular poetry became smaller. In particular, the Goliards were noted for profane parodies of religious texts. These expansions of...
Victor Wulfstan the Cantor? Wipo of Burgundy? High (1150–1300) Casella Goliards Minnesang Galician-Portuguese lyric List of Galician-Portuguese troubadours...
Instruments / Theory (Theorists) Movements and schools Saint Gall Saint Martial Goliard Ars antiqua Notre-Dame school Troubadour Trouvère Minnesang Ars nova Trecento...
Victor Wulfstan the Cantor? Wipo of Burgundy? High (1150–1300) Casella Goliards Minnesang Galician-Portuguese lyric List of Galician-Portuguese troubadours...
Corinth Books/Jargon 24, 1960; London: Cape Goliard, 1960). Maximus Poems IV, V, VI (London: Cape Goliard, 1968). The Special View of History, ed. Ann...
plough his field with a 'Hey-nonny-nonny'". The wandering scholar, or goliard, who posed the mock questions of whether it was better to eat meat or fish...
the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern in 1803 and written by the Goliards; this collection is also known as Carmina Burana. While "modern" in some...
Carmina Burana. The poetry of O Fortuna was actually the work of itinerant goliards, found in the German Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern Abbey. The...
Instruments / Theory (Theorists) Movements and schools Saint Gall Saint Martial Goliard Ars antiqua Notre-Dame school Troubadour Trouvère Minnesang Ars nova Trecento...
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