The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise
and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity,
spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of
hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral
identity could be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of
primary importance, and Peter Godman here restores them to the
prominence they once occupied in twelfth-century thought. This book
is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in
the work of the most famous authors of the Latin Middle Ages.
Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and
form, it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval
conscience.
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