학술논문

Nasty habits--satire and the medieval monk.
Document Type
Article
Source
History Today. Jun93, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p36. 7p. 2 Color Photographs, 9 Black and White Photographs.
Subject
*TWELFTH century
*ENGLISH satire
*HISTORICAL criticism (Literature)
MEDIEVAL English church history, 1066-1485
HISTORY of monasticism & religious orders
Language
ISSN
0018-2753
Abstract
Examines humor, holy men and the sub-texts of comment in 12th-century England. The monks of the great Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx in Yorkshire; Approval of monastic life expressed in Ailred's biography; Nigel Wireker's views as expressed in his satirical poem entitled `Speculum Stultorum' (A Mirror for Fools, c.1180); Giraldus Cambrensis and Walter Map's criticism of the monastic life; Perennial dilemma of monastic property; Criticism leveled at the Cistercians; More.