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goliard
[ gohl-yerd ]
noun
- one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
goliard
/ ˈɡəʊljÉ™d; ɡəʊlˈjÉ‘Ëdɪk /
noun
- one of a number of wandering scholars in 12th- and 13th-century Europe famed for their riotous behaviour, intemperance, and composition of satirical and ribald Latin verse
Derived Forms
- goliardic, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²µ´Ç±ô·¾±²¹°ù·»å±ð°ù·²â [gohl-, yahr, -d, uh, -ree], noun
- ²µ´Ç±ô·¾±²¹°ùd¾±³¦ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of goliard1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of goliard1
Example Sentences
The goliard poems are as truly “medieval†as the monastic life which they despised; they merely voice another section of humanity.
Many may have been the work of goliards or wandering scholars, and a common feature is the interweaving of Latin with English words.
It is thus used in Piers Plowman, where, however, the goliard still rhymes in Latin, and in Chaucer.
This legislation was only effective when the “privileges of clergy†were withdrawn from the goliards.
Those historians who regard the middle ages as completely dominated by ascetic ideals, regard the goliard movement as a protest against the spirit of the time.
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