Goliardic poetry

collection of medieval Latin poetry

poem from the Carmina Burana

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

12th-century French writer and theologian

thumb|alt=A cellarer testing his wine|A wikt:cellarer|cellarer testing his wine. (13th century)

poem from the Carmina Burana

collection of Goliardic medieval Latin poems