Words fail me
You have to see this. It's an ad, simply titled, "Big Ad." It is totally wonderful. Thank you, Kath (the woman who posted the URL on a list we're on) for cheering my day.
posted by Madeleine Robins at 6:53 PM
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Hee!
---L.
You and Janni were a couple of the people I was thinking of when I put that up, L...
My understanding, from Latin-reading friends, is that it's mostly drinking song lyrics and the like...music for raucous monks, maybe.
It's some monks, and the manuscript was found in a monastery, but most of the songs were by clerks. To get any sort of Church training at the time (and all the universities were Church affairs) you had to enter at least minor orders, even if you backed out later and went for a civilian life with your readin' and writin'. So a fair number of clerks were university students with no intention of being clerical -- and they wrote bawdy songs.
That said, the songs form the Carmina Burana that get the most attention are the secular ones, but there's about an equal number each of erotic, secular, and sacred songs in the thing.
---L.
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