A Study On The Emotional World Of Latin Western Troubadours In The High Middle Age

Goliards came from the universities of the Latino western cities during High Middle Ages.As part of the students,Goliards sought happiness from drinking and composing poetry,indulging themselves in sensual pleasures.During the cathedral school period,when they started to be active among various centers of knowledge,Goliards had appeared and gathered together,studying while wandering with their teachers.Whether it was a formal social group,it is discovered from Carmina Burana that because of the popularity of Latin lyrics among the students,a literally fictional society came into being,at least in the poems.That society admired alcohol,women and entertainment.In this paper,the author tries to explore their behaviors,thoughts and their emotional worlds through their poems that were passed down.This thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,main text and conclusion.The introduction part mainly illustrates the significance of the topic selection,the research status of this topic at home and abroad,as well as the research methods and difficulties.The body part studies the emotional world of Goliards from the historical background to the text of the poem from six aspects.First of all,the time and space backgrounds of the life of the Goliards are illustrated.This chapter describes the economic,urban and cultural Renaissance of Latino Western countries in the High Middle Ages.Under this Renaissance background,the life style of the students’ academic pilgrimage was promoted.Among them,the revival of court culture brought about the construction of a new cultural and moral system.Secondly,the author observes students’ behavior,thoughts,thinking of fate and group identity consciousness in the Middle Ages schools and universities,which is the living space of Goliards.In the third chapter,the author analyzes the moral feelings of the Goliards through their poems.This kind of emotion was more manifested as antipathy to the aristocracy and the mainstream value of the society,as well as a way of laughing at the ignorance of the peasants.At the same time,they also expressed a strong hatred of the corruption of the religious aristocracy and money.The emotion expressed in these poems also reflects the religious fanaticism of the writer group.The fourth aspect elaborates the student group’s study and life pressure,further studying the medieval students’ various ways to relieve their worries.All kinds of entertainment,such as drinking and gambling,were recorded in their poems.The restriction of social and material life of Goliards contributed to the spiritual expression of pleasure in the midst of suffering and the pursuit of joy in the poems.The fifth chapter focuses on the analysis of love lyrics of Goliards.Goliards always conveyed their views on life by pursuing happiness and satisfying people’s essential needs,which contained the life consciousness and aesthetic consciousness of the group.Finally,the author studies the historical value of the codex of Carmina Burana,which recorded the process of poetic literature at that time transmitting from a Latin writing to a bilingual writing.And Carl Orff’s opera in the middle of the last century certainly gave the codex a new lease of life.This thesis focuses on the poetry,tracing the behavior,thought and emotional expression of the people in it,which helps us to understand and present the emotional world of Latino Western Goliards to the modern society.