Carmina Burana: Thirty Poems

Presented in their original medieval Latin and with commentary and notes in English, this is a translation of thirty poems from Carmina Burana .The Carmina Burana is a collection of poems, songs and sung religious drama from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Often described as the work of wandering scholars, it actually contains many pieces by famous clerics of the period. The verses are lively, uninhibited celebrations of the joys of wine, women and gambling, but there are also serious poems on the pains of love and the moral corruption of the Church.>

Product details

• Authors: P G Walsh
• Assisted by: P. G. Walsh (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1991
• EAN: 9780704905252
• ISBN: 978-0-7049-0525-2
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Reading University Medieval an; Reading University Medieval an
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets