Goliard

goliard English Alternative forms en goliard Etymology en, possibly from en fro goliard glutton; compare it goliardo university student. Noun en historical A wandering student of the 12th or 13th century, whose convivial lifestyle included minstrelsy and a typical satirical Latin poetry. en English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Raymond MacDonald Alden https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32262/pg32262-images.html 1903 Henry Holt & Co New York There it was more commonly trochaic than iambic, as in the famous drinking song of the Goliards: en Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition w:A. S. Turberville https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46149/pg46149-images.html 1920 Crosby Lockwood and Son London It is a note scornful, defiant, often ribald and profane, that comes into the songs of the goliards and troubadours. en 1951 Frederick Brittain The Mediaeval Latin and Romance Lyric to A.D. 1300 2nd 2009 Cambridge University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ergKSk7lS9gC&pg=PA16&dq=%22Goliard%22%7C%22Goliards%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Goliard%22%7C%22Goliards%22&f=false 16 The Goliard, indeed, can be regarded as a sub-species of the jongleur, and evidence exists that the personnel of the two classes was to some extent interchangeable.The anonymous Goliard known as the Archpoet(118) was of higher social standing than most of his confreres and, as a poet, one of the greatest of his class. en 1996 Judith Lynn Sebesta Jeffrey M. Duban Carl Orff: Carmina Burana: Cantiones Profange https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SwvPq7h5vN0C&pg=PA5&dq=%22Goliard%22%7C%22Goliards%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Goliard%22%7C%22Goliards%22&f=false 5 A few lucky Goliards gained a more secure life by being adopted by some rich patron, just as the Archpoet, the most famous Goliard, had himself been taken up by the Archbishop of Cologne. Most Goliards roved from town to town, begging food and lodging, earning some coins by pleasing their audience with their songs. en 2008 G. A. R. Hamilton Thomas Ingoldsby Introductory: The Ingoldsby Legends and Emopire: The Ingoldsby Legends https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CIynAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR13&dq=%22Goliard%22%7C%22Goliards%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Goliard%22%7C%22Goliards%22&f=false xiii Well-known texts such as those of the Roman Catholic Mass and certain Latin hymns were all warped to encompass the secular and satirical purposes of the Goliards. In the hands of the Goliards strict Latin verse fell into a more natural stress-based prosody that better expressed the bawdy themes of drinking, fighting, and love that populated their writing in equal measure. Derived terms en goliardic en goliardery Translations wandering student French: fr goliard m German: de Vagant m Polish: pl goliard m, pl wagant m Further reading Goliards Archpoet Anagrams en adgilor Giraldo Argolid