Category
page 1Goliardic poetry
Carmina Burana
collection of medieval Latin poetry

O Fortuna
poem from the Carmina Burana

goliard
right|thumb|An image from the 11th-13th century. Carmina Burana, [[Benediktbeuern Abbey, a collection of goliard love and vagabond songs]]The goliards were a group of generally young clergy in Europe who wrote satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries of the Middle Ages. They were chiefly clerics who served at or had studied at the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England, who protested against the growing contradictions within the church through song, poetry and performance. Disaffected and not called to the religious life, they often presented such protests with
Walter of Châtillon
12th-century French writer and theologian

Archpoet
thumb|alt=A cellarer testing his wine|A wikt:cellarer|cellarer testing his wine. (13th century)
Q4041345
poem from the Carmina Burana
Cambridge Songs
collection of Goliardic medieval Latin poems