Goliardery

Quick meaning: Goliardery is a noun meaning The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.

Meaning

The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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

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