The Archpoet, or Archipoeta, is the name given to an anonymous 12th-century author of ten medieval Latin poems, the most famous being his "Confession" found in the Carmina Burana manuscript.
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A cellarer testing his wine. (13th century)
The Archpoet flourished during the same time as many of the famous troubadours, who wrote in vernacular languages rather than Latin. (14th century)
Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190. (14th century)
The poems of the Archpoet were composed for a courtly audience. (Costumes of All Nations, 1882)
"Meum est propositum in taberna mori, ut sint vina proxima morientis ori." (Adriaen van Ostade, The Merry Peasant, 1630-1650)Writers from Germany 6
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The Archpoet, or Archipoeta, is the name given to an anonymous 12th-century author of ten medieval Latin poems, the most famous being his "Confession" found in the Carmina Burana manuscript. Along with Hugh Primas of Orléans, he is cited as the best exemplar of Goliardic poetry and one of the stellar poets of the Latin Middle Ages.
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deceased
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Lived 1130 to 1165 · aged 35
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