It has been suggested by W. H. T. Jackson and others that his nickname could be a play on his patron Rainald of Dassel's title of Archchancellor (Archicancellarius in Latin), even if its exact origins are ultimately left open to speculation. Moreover, it is not known how he came to earn the nickname or who bestowed it to him: whether as a mark of esteem from the audiences, other poets, Rainald himself; as a satirical jest on his patron's title; or as an ironical mock self-attribution. There has been report of at least two other "clericus vagus", itinerant clerics, bearing the "Archipoeta" pseudonym or title around that time: one Nicholas who briefly resided with the Cistercians at their abbey, and Henry of Avranches (around 1250); yet both are distinct from the "Archipoeta" of Barbarossa's reigning period (1155–1190).
The Archpoet's living circumstances have been surmised from the indicative content of his poems but mostly from the life of Rainald of Dassel. Because he designates Rainald as Archbishop of Cologne, it shows that he must have been alive and active for at least some time between 1159 (when Rainald became archbishop) and 1167 (when he died); furthermore, all of his datable poems fall within 1162 and 1164. With the passing of his patron in 1167, no more is heard from the Archpoet. Also, in poem X, Peter Dronke writes, "he counts himself among the iuvenes: while technically a iuvenis can be any age between twenty-one and fifty, it would seem plausible to imagine the Archpoet as thirty or thirty-five at the time of this composition, and to set his birth not too far from 1130."
Several indications concur as to establish that the Archpoet came from a place north of the Alps, although no solid claim can be made as to which country, even though Germany has repeatedly and traditionally being taken as his birthplace. He refers to himself as "ortus a militibus", of knightly birth, and, coming from such a high class, was most certainly well-educated in the liberal arts, theology and the classics. In poem IV, he states that he chose the pursuit of poetry (as symbolized by the Roman poet Virgil) over a career in the military (as symbolized by the Trojan warrior Paris) as his birth permitted and disposed him to. It has been deduced from the same poem that he first traveled to Salerno in order to pursue medical studies but that due to ill health, he had to abandon this project.
[H]e was in fact a court poet, perhaps also a civil servant or minor diplomat, in the service of the Imperial Chancellor, and so almost certainly a member of the circle around Frederick Barbarossa himself. I am convinced that his leitmotif of the wayward, wretched vagabond-poet who is compelled to beg from his patron and his audience contains far less autobiography than literary craft... The Archpoet's picture of the vagabond-poet (whatever element of literal truth it may have contained) has been drawn for the sophisticated entertainment of that international set of diplomats and legislators, high-born scholars and prelates who surrounded the Emperor, whose lingua franca was Latin, and among whom the Archpoet probably, by his birth and position, moved as an equal.
This view of the Archpoet and his milieu, severely contrasting with that of the previous generations of researchers and writers such as J. A. Symonds and Helen Waddell, created a break in modern High Middle Ages scholarship about the Goliards and, in spite of not creating consensus within the academic community, has since been embraced by many scholars. Summarizing Dronke's view by using English writer Geoffrey Chaucer as an example of differentiation between actual (historical) self and poetic (fictional) persona, Jan Ziolkowski wrote that the Archpoet's shenanigans "may be little more than a stance struck by the poet to entertain his audience; the persona could be as far from the reality as that of Chaucer the character was from Chaucer the poet or man." Dronke further argued that the Archpoet could well have been Hugh Primas's student in Orléans, getting acquainted through him with various rare Classical poets and also with his personal style (themes and techniques).
The works of the Archpoet have been found and preserved in the following manuscripts, among others:
Despite being quite dissimilar from one another in terms of tone and intent, the ten poems are all "occasional" in the sense that they have been written for a specific purpose under precise circumstances, whether to celebrate an event or respond to a request; in the Archpoet's case, concerning the court of his patron: eight of them are directed to Rainald of Dassel, while the two others are addressed to Frederick Barbarossa himself. For example, the fourth poem, "Archicancellarie, vir discrete mentis", was most probably written as a plaintive answer to what he felt was the unreasonable demand from Rainald that he write within one week an epic recounting the Emperor's campaign in Italy.
The Archpoet's poems are known for appearing "intensely personal": he features in almost all of them, and deals in an outspoken manner with intimate subjects such as his material (e.g. poverty, wandering) and spiritual (e.g. distress, anger, love) condition, his flawed and sinful nature, his wishes and aspirations. Many of his poems, whether panegyric or not, amount to very elaborate pleas to obtain food, drink, clothing, and money from his powerful patron. Yet far from falling into mere lyricism or honest confidence, they are often undermined by subtle sarcasm and disguised mockery, fitting with the persona the Archpoet seems to have created for himself as a free-spirited, vagabond hedonist, unrepentant in his propensity to overindulge and unblushing in the judgment of his self-worth. Aside from their recognized technical merits, the poems are imbued with a strong and pervading sense of humor manifested in the consummate use and manipulation of classical and biblical sources for parodic, sarcastic and ironic purposes.
Described as "the prototype of the goliardic songs" as well as "the masterpiece of the [Goliardic] school", the best known poem of the Archpoet is his tenth, "Estuans intrinsecus", commonly called the Goliardic "Confession" (sometimes "Confessio", "Confessio Goliae" or "Confession of Golias"), a metrical composition of ironical tone wherein he confesses his love of women, gambling, and drinking. It is purported to have been written in Pavia around the year 1163 for his patron as a confession and defense of his sins after a rival of the Archpoet witnessed and subsequently reported his reprobate behavior. For example, the oft-cited twelfth stanza goes:
The "Confession" was very famous in the Archpoet's time: compared to his other poems, which are mostly found in only one manuscript, "Estuans intrinsecus" has been copied in more than thirty, and it almost single-handedly accounts for his enduring appeal as the writer of one of the most popular medieval Latin poems.
Adcock 1994: xix; Waddell 2000: 295. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Jeep 2001: 21. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Various sources (for example, see Lejay 1913: 33) have erroneously taken "Archipoeta" to be an alias or pen name of Hugh of Orléans while in fact there are numerous indications establishing their being two different individuals. Peter Dronke goes even as far as to call the Archpoet Hugh's "brillante discepolo e successore" (Dronke 2007: 137), brilliant disciple and successor. - Lejay, Paul (1910). "Classical Latin Literature in the Church" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Classical_Latin_Literature_in_the_Church
Whicher 1949: 102; Haskins 1971: 179–181; Adcock 1994: ix; Harrington and Pucci 1997: 566. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Sidwell 2002: 347. - Sidwell, Keith, ed. (2002) [1995]. "Section 20.4: The Archpoet (fl. 1160)". Reading Medieval Latin (Reprint of the 1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 347–352. ISBN 0-521-44747-X. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky_-G75VH80C
Adcock 1994: xxii; Jeep 2001: 21. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
See poem IV, line 70 (CB 220, line 10).
Adcock 1994: xxi–xxii. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Harrington and Pucci 1997: 567. - Harrington, Karl Pomeroy, ed. (November 1997) [1925]. "The Archpoet: Confession". Medieval Latin. Revised by Joseph Pucci (2nd ed.). Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 566–571. ISBN 0-226-31713-7. https://archive.org/details/medievallatinsec00harr
Haskins 1971: 181; Harrington and Pucci 1997: 567; Adcock 1994: xix; Emmerson 2006: 44. - Haskins, Charles Homer (1971) [1927]. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-76075-1.
Adcock 1994: xii. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Adcock 1994: xii, xvii. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Sidwell 2002: 347. - Sidwell, Keith, ed. (2002) [1995]. "Section 20.4: The Archpoet (fl. 1160)". Reading Medieval Latin (Reprint of the 1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 347–352. ISBN 0-521-44747-X. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky_-G75VH80C
Jeep 2001: 21; Emmerson 2006: 44. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Dronke 1968: 21–22. - Dronke, Peter (1968). The Medieval Lyric (1st ed.). London: Hutchinson University Library.
Adcock 1994: xxii; Jeep 2001: 21. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Adcock 1994: xx. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Jackson 1976: 320. - Jackson, William Thomas Hobdell (1976). "The Politics of a Poet: the Archipoeta as Revealed by his Imagery". In Mahoney, Edward P. (ed.). Philosophy and Humanism: Renaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller (in Latin) (1st ed.). New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 320–338. ISBN 90-04-04378-0.
Whicher 1949: 102. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Adcock 1994: xii. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Waddell 2000: 209. - ——— (2000) [1927]. "Chapter VII: The Archpoet". The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages (Reprint of 1936's 6th ed.). Mineola: Dover Publications. pp. 161–176. ISBN 0-486-41436-1.
Henshaw 1937: 195. - Henshaw, Millett (November 1937). "Review: [untitled]". Modern Philology. 35 (2). University of Chicago Press: 195–197. doi:10.1086/388299. JSTOR 434431. https://doi.org/10.1086%2F388299
Adcock 1994: xii, xvii. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Keeping in line with the hypothesis that his nickname or pseudonym was inspired by the titles of his patron, it explains why he is sometimes referred to as the "Archpoet of Cologne"; for example, see Whicher 1949: 102–103 and Curtius 1990: 29. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Adcock 1994: xix. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Jeep 2001: 22. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Adcock 1994: xix. See poem X (CB 191), line 27. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
The main evidence being his using the word "transmontanos" (meaning "which lives or comes from beyond the mountains" in Latin) in line 14 of poem III, when it is made clear that he is writing from within Italy and thus south of the Alps. /wiki/Italy
Adcock 1994: xxi–xxii. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Harrington and Pucci 1997: 567. - Harrington, Karl Pomeroy, ed. (November 1997) [1925]. "The Archpoet: Confession". Medieval Latin. Revised by Joseph Pucci (2nd ed.). Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 566–571. ISBN 0-226-31713-7. https://archive.org/details/medievallatinsec00harr
See poem IV, line 70 (CB 220, line 10).
Haskins 1971: 181; Harrington and Pucci 1997: 567; Adcock 1994: xix; Emmerson 2006: 44. - Haskins, Charles Homer (1971) [1927]. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-76075-1.
Jeep 2001: 21. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Adcock 1994: xii. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Jeep 2001: 21. See poem IV, lines 69–72 (CB 220, lines 9–12). - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Haskins 1971: 181; Adcock 1994: xix. - Haskins, Charles Homer (1971) [1927]. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-76075-1.
Whicher 1949: 102. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Haskins 1971: 181; Adcock 1994: xix. - Haskins, Charles Homer (1971) [1927]. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-76075-1.
Curtius 1990: 29. - Curtius, Ernst Robert (1990) [1948]. European Literature and the Middle Ages. Bolligen Series. Vol. 36. Translated from the German by William R. Trask. With a New Afterword by Peter Godman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01899-5. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010. Retrieved August 6, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100724074111/http://press.princeton.edu/titles/404.html
Haskins 1971: 53, 181; Adcock 1994: xix; Jeep 2001: 21; Emmerson 2006: 44. - Haskins, Charles Homer (1971) [1927]. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-76075-1.
Waddell 2000: 172; Harrington and Pucci 1997: 567. - ——— (2000) [1927]. "Chapter VII: The Archpoet". The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages (Reprint of 1936's 6th ed.). Mineola: Dover Publications. pp. 161–176. ISBN 0-486-41436-1.
Dronke 1968: 21–22. - Dronke, Peter (1968). The Medieval Lyric (1st ed.). London: Hutchinson University Library.
See Jackson 1980: 2–3; Adcock 1994: xx; Godwin 2000: 191–192. - Jackson, William Thomas Hobdell (1980). "Introduction". In Jackson, W. T. H. (ed.). The Interpretation of Medieval Lyric Poetry (1st ed.). New York & London: Columbia University Press & Macmillan. pp. 1–21. ISBN 0-333-24816-3.
Jeep 2001: 21–22. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Various sources (for example, see Lejay 1913: 33) have erroneously taken "Archipoeta" to be an alias or pen name of Hugh of Orléans while in fact there are numerous indications establishing their being two different individuals. Peter Dronke goes even as far as to call the Archpoet Hugh's "brillante discepolo e successore" (Dronke 2007: 137), brilliant disciple and successor. - Lejay, Paul (1910). "Classical Latin Literature in the Church" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Classical_Latin_Literature_in_the_Church
Adcock 1994: xxi–xxii; Dronke 2007: 137. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
"Aestuans intrinsecus" is also found as a variant to "Estuans intrinsecus" since medieval manuscripts do not always use the same spelling for the same texts.
Adcock 1994: xxii, 129. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Dronke 1984: 249. - Dronke, Peter (1984). The Medieval Poet and His World. Raccolta di Studi e Testi (in English and French). Vol. 164 (1st ed.). Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
While CB 191 is sometimes presented as having 30 stanzas, the last 5 (often put under CB 191a) are believed not to be the Archpoet's own work. See Wolff 1995: 529. - Wolff, Étienne, ed. (1995). Carmina Burana (in French) (1st ed.). Paris: Imprimerie nationale Éditions, coll. La Salamandre. ISBN 2-7433-0000-0.
As with the other poem, CB 220a (or sometimes CB 221) is believed to be another anonymous author's work. See Wolff 1995: 533. Both the Bibliotheca Augustana's and David Stampe's (reproducing Bischoff's) versions display these poems of contested origin as 191a and 220a. - Wolff, Étienne, ed. (1995). Carmina Burana (in French) (1st ed.). Paris: Imprimerie nationale Éditions, coll. La Salamandre. ISBN 2-7433-0000-0.
Jeep 2001: 21; Emmerson 2006: 44. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Sidwell 2002: 347. - Sidwell, Keith, ed. (2002) [1995]. "Section 20.4: The Archpoet (fl. 1160)". Reading Medieval Latin (Reprint of the 1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 347–352. ISBN 0-521-44747-X. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky_-G75VH80C
Waddell 2000: 167; Sidwell 2002: 347; Whicher 1949: 103. - ——— (2000) [1927]. "Chapter VII: The Archpoet". The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages (Reprint of 1936's 6th ed.). Mineola: Dover Publications. pp. 161–176. ISBN 0-486-41436-1.
Jackson 1976: 320. - Jackson, William Thomas Hobdell (1976). "The Politics of a Poet: the Archipoeta as Revealed by his Imagery". In Mahoney, Edward P. (ed.). Philosophy and Humanism: Renaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller (in Latin) (1st ed.). New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 320–338. ISBN 90-04-04378-0.
Jeep 2001: 21; Whicher 1949: 102–103. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
Adcock 1994: xiii–xv. - Adcock, Fleur, ed. (1994). Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Cambridge Medieval Classics. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39546-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzt3cCwf8vgC
Whicher 1949: 103; Dronke 1980: 22, 39–40; Adcock 1994: xiii, xv. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Whicher 1949: 102–103; Adcock 1994: xiv; Jeep 2001: 21. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Scheid 1910: 29. - Scheid, Nikolaus (1910). "Latin Literature in Christianity (Sixth to Twentieth Century)" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Latin_Literature_in_Christianity_(Sixth_to_Twentieth_Century)
Whicher 1949: 102. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Harrington and Pucci 1997: 567; both Symonds and Whicher used this last title in their respective books. - Harrington, Karl Pomeroy, ed. (November 1997) [1925]. "The Archpoet: Confession". Medieval Latin. Revised by Joseph Pucci (2nd ed.). Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 566–571. ISBN 0-226-31713-7. https://archive.org/details/medievallatinsec00harr
Fuhrmann 2000: 155. - Fuhrmann, Horst (2001) [1986]. Germany in the high Middle Ages c.1050–1200. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks (Reprint of 1995's 3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-31980-3.
There are numerous and significant variants in the different versions of the Latin text depending on the source manuscripts and the editorial choices of scholars, as is often the case with the bulk of medieval literature. The one chosen here is in no way the sole, authoritative form.
Harrington and Pucci 1997: 570. - Harrington, Karl Pomeroy, ed. (November 1997) [1925]. "The Archpoet: Confession". Medieval Latin. Revised by Joseph Pucci (2nd ed.). Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 566–571. ISBN 0-226-31713-7. https://archive.org/details/medievallatinsec00harr
Note that both English translations have no official, authoritative sources; they are the free work of anonymous editors, and serve only as illustrations of the Latin original.
Note that both English translations have no official, authoritative sources; they are the free work of anonymous editors, and serve only as illustrations of the Latin original.
Whicher 1949: 103. - Whicher, George Frisbie (1949). The Goliard Poets: Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. New York: New Directions.
Jeep 2001: 21; Emmerson 2006: 44. - Jeep, John M., ed. (January 2001). "Archpoet". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (1st ed.). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C
"His 'confession', with its eloquent plea that the poet's inspiration is bound up with his freedom to live freely, to live dangerously, is perhaps the best-known poem in Medieval Latin." (Dronke 1968: 21) See also Morris 2004: 131. - Dronke, Peter (1968). The Medieval Lyric (1st ed.). London: Hutchinson University Library.
Waddell 2000: 169. - ——— (2000) [1927]. "Chapter VII: The Archpoet". The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages (Reprint of 1936's 6th ed.). Mineola: Dover Publications. pp. 161–176. ISBN 0-486-41436-1.
Marcuse 2007: 75. - Marcuse, Herbert (2007). "The German Artist Novel: Introduction". Art and Liberation (1st ed.). Abingdon / New York: Routledge. pp. 71–81. ISBN 978-0-415-13783-6. LCCN 97154404. https://archive.org/details/artliberationcol00marc
The song has been published in the German Allgemeines Deutsches Kommersbuch (152nd edition, 1956, p. 381). /wiki/Allgemeines_Deutsches_Kommersbuch
Artist page on MusicBrainz.org. http://musicbrainz.org/artist/e0a1ff5e-3737-4569-b0e5-46079545fa20.html