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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Pope Innocent III, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Andreas Capellanus, Saxo Grammaticus, Alain de Lille, Adelard of Bath, Walter Map, Albert of Aix, John of Salisbury, Archpoet, Lawrence of Durham, Aelred of Rievaulx, Richard Barre, Bernard Silvestris, Henry of Huntingdon, Peter Lombard, Gerard of Cremona, Ranulf de Glanvill, Pascalis Romanus, Bernard of Cluny, Hugh of Amiens, Gerard la Pucelle, Otto of Freising, Irnerius, Adam of Dryburgh, Fulcher of Chartres, Ralph Niger, Gervase of Canterbury, Peter of Eboli, Reginald of Canterbury, Gratian, Honorius Augustodunensis, Hugh Primas, Walter of Chatillon, Odo of Deuil, Bulgarus, Peter of Poitiers, Burgundio of Pisa, Peter of Blois, Bele Regis Notarius, William of Apulia, Caradoc of Llancarfan, Azo of Bologna, Peter of Cornwall, Henrik Harpestraeng, Osbert of Clare, John of Hauville, Joseph of Exeter, Odo of Lucca, Serlo of Wilton, Walter of Compiegne, Embrico of Mainz, Thomas of Monmouth, Matthew of Vendome, Hisdosus, Henry of Settimello. Excerpt: The Archpoet (c. 1130-c. 1165), or (in Latin and German), is the name given to a 12th century anonymous author of ten poems from medieval Latin literature, the most famous being his "Confession" found in the manuscript (under CB 191). Along with Hugh Primas of Orleans (with whom he has sometimes been confused), he is cited as the best exemplar of Goliardic poetry and one of the stellar poets of the Latin Middle Ages. Knowledge about him comes from his poems in manuscripts: his noble birth in an unspecified Western Europe region, his respectable and classical education, his association with Archchancellor Rainald of Dassel's court, and his poetic activity linked to it in content and purpose. As such, it has been recently speculated that the bibulous, extravagant personality emanating from the poems could be only serving as a facade desp..
