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100 1 _aSymonds, John Addington,
_d1840-1893
245 1 0 _aWine, Women, and Song :
_bMediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2006
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2006-03-24
508 _aProduced by Michael Ciesielski, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Wine, Women, and Song" by John Addington Symonds is a scholarly work written in the late 19th century. The book offers a translation of medieval Latin songs from wandering students, accompanied by an essay that examines the cultural and societal contexts of these lyrics. Through this collection, the author explores themes of love, pleasure, and the human experience during the often-misunderstood Middle Ages, challenging conventional perceptions of the era’s intellectual and moral landscape. The opening of the text introduces the reader to the contrasting views of the Middle Ages, characterized by a profound spiritual focus and often exaggerated claims of ignorance and superstition. Symonds articulates the need to reevaluate these stereotypes, presenting an alternative depiction through the vibrant, unapologetic, and often secular songs of the wandering students, who celebrated earthly pleasures. The narrative delves into the poets' backgrounds, their lifestyle as vagrant scholars, and the recurring motifs of love and wine in their compositions, aimed at redefining modern understanding of medieval intellectual and artistic life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aSongs, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English
653 _aGoliards -- Songs and music -- Texts
653 _aStudents' songs -- Europe -- Texts
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18044
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