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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 seen as issues of primary importance and peter godman here restores them to the prominence they once occupied in twelfth century thought . this 2009 book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the work of the most famous authors of the latin middle ages . combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and form it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval conscience .
hardcover cambridge university press 2009 isbn13 9780521519113 isbn10 052151911x
abridged n isbn 13 9780521519113 number in series 1 number of pages 242 publisher cambridge university press release date 62135769600000 series title cambridge studies in medieval literature