Meaning

The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards..

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The Goliards became a kind of monkish rhapsodists , the companions and rivals of the Jongleurs ( the reciters of the merry and licentious fabliaux ) ; Goliardery was a recognised kind of mediæval poetry

The medieval Latin equivalent of a "bourgeois" tradition is to be seen variously in comedy, goliardery, and satire, and in epistolary and expository prose.

Goliardery cannot be described as religious verse; it is characterised by a strong sense for the worldly life, containing a good deal of love poetry and drinking poems.

Jean is of course not basing his poem on a refurbishment of twelfth-century goliardery.

In its burlesque form it reflected and, like so much of courtliness in Italy, in great part derived from the larger European tradition, as much aristocratic as popular, of Rabelaisian irreverence, goliardery, fabliaux, facetiae.

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