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Anyone else here ever hear of the Goliards? I've been reading about them lately and find them fascinating. I think I'll try to write something based on the Goliards. Sex, gluttony, drinking and satire in medieval Europe! Sounds like my kinda place.
>>>The word goliard itself outlived these turbulent bands which had given it birth, and passed over into French and English literature of the 14th century in the general meaning of jongleur or minstrel, quite apart from any clerical association. It is thus used in Piers Plowman, where, hOwever, the goliard still rhymes in Latin, and in Chaucer.<<<
Yeah, I think it'll be a gold mine for characters.
>>The Archpoet is a name given to the bibulous and boastful anonymous author of many of the poems contained in the Carmina Burana collection of mediæval Latin verse. His existence has been surmised from consistencies in usage and style among certain of the otherwise anonymous poems in that collection. He was decidedly a follower of the Goliardic tradition, writing student drinking songs and satires on the life of itinerant clergy in the Middle Ages. Very little else can be said with certainty about his life.<<
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