goliardic
English
Alternative forms
- Goliardic
Adjective
goliardic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Goliards, wandering medieval students who earned money by singing and reciting poetry.
- 1982, Piero Boitani, Joan Krakover Hall (translator), English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, [1980, La narrativa del Medioevo inglese], 1986, page 28,
- Minstrels and goliardic clerics - priests, monks and university students who dropped out, travelled all over Europe and composed loose or satirical works - had been and continued to be the creators of fabliaux and interludes.
- 1982, Piero Boitani, Joan Krakover Hall (translator), English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, [1980, La narrativa del Medioevo inglese], 1986, page 28,
- Of or pertaining to a form of medieval lyric poetry that typically celebrated licentiousness and drinking.
- 1999, Miriam Cabré, Footnote, Cerverí de Girona and His Poetic Traditions, page 53,
- The concept of goliardic poetry rests on a series of stylistic traits and the identification of the corpus with the figure of the wandering goliard.
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