Goliardic

To him was ascribed most of the "Goliardic" poetry current in the Middle Ages, so called on account of the principal personage who figures in it, Golias, the type of the gluttonous and debauched prelate.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

"Goliardic," as it gives the views of a class of wild ecclesiastical or

History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

Lastly, much of the "Goliardic" Latin satire on the clergy of that period has without sufficient reason been ascribed to him, the most noted among that class of writing being the "Confessio

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Yet so Gargantuan and Goliardic that the reader holds his breath, lest the whole beatific caboodle should vanish into thin air and leave him lamenting like a Peril shut out from Paradise.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 Various

But if we compare such things as the _Carmina Burana_, or as the Goliardic poems attributed to or connected with Walter Map, [5] with the early

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

It is probable that the Archipoeta, the follower of Reinald von Dassel, the man who composed the most vigorous Goliardic poem we possess, and gave the impulse of his genius to that style of writing, was not the Walter of the _Versa est in luctum_ or of _Dum Gualterus aegrotaret_.

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

This merging of the individual in the class of which he forms a part is eminently characteristic of popular literature, and separates the Goliardic songs from those of the

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

In that period, so fruitful of great efforts and of great results in the fields of politics and thought and literature, efforts and results foredoomed to partial frustration and to perverse misapplication -- in that potent space of time, so varied in its intellectual and social manifestations, so pregnant with good and evil, so rapid in mutations, so indeterminate between advance and retrogression -- this Goliardic poetry stands alone.

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

His remarks, at any rate, go far toward disposing of the old belief that the Goliardic satires were the work of Thomas Mapes.

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

This is perhaps the most outspoken utterance with regard to the eponymous hero of the Goliardic class which we possess, and it deserves a close inspection.

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866