The Carmina Burana {Songs from Benediktbeuern} is the largest and most important medieval European poetic anthology. Found at the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern about 50km south of Munich, it was probably written about 1230 in South Tyrol. It has been preserved as MS. Bavarian State Library, Munich, clm 4660/4660a.
The Carmina Burana consists mainly of accentual, rhyming Latin verse. It also includes some German verse (about 7% of the verses) and a Latin-French macaronic poem.
The Carmina Burana represents the true vibrancy and diversity of medieval European culture. It encompasses moral-satirical verse, love poems, drinking poems, and religious plays. The love poems show medieval men’s ardent, fleshly love for women and represent men’s great suffering in lovesickness. These poems embrace God’s love in the flesh and relish the divine promise of seminal fruitfulness.
The 16th-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne shared publicly like persons today on social media usually don’t. He shared his sexual inadequacies. … Read the post Montaigne essayed his sexual difficulties and inadequacies
Medieval German songs from the Carmina Burana show men’s sensitivity to women’s feelings toward them. Women, help love to win! … Read the post men keenly attuned to women’s feelings toward them
Medieval Latin literature appreciated men’s sexuality as sacred. It also showed men’s tendency to gyno-idolatry and the possibility of women’s godly help. … Read the post women against gyno-idolatry help men in love
Helen and Paris’s love affair brought about the disastrous Trojan War, yet medieval poets imagined it romantically. Men’s deaths should matter more. … Read the post Helen and Paris’s love affair in medieval imagining
Medieval European culture supported ardent, profound love between women and men. Losing such love is a catastrophe for human welfare and society. … Read the post medieval men ardently, profoundly loved women