goliardic

Adjective

goliardic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Goliards, wandering medieval students who earned money by singing and reciting poetry.
   • Minstrels and goliardic clerics - priests, monks and university students who dropped out, travelled all over Europe and composed loose or satirical works - had been and continued to be the creators of fabliaux and interludes.1982, Piero Boitani, “English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries”, in Joan Krakover Hall, transl., [1980, La narrativa del Medioevo inglese], published 1986, page 28
   • Many poems in the collection known as Carmina Burana, are believed to be of goliardic origin.1999, Norman F. Cantor, The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, page 198
2. Of or pertaining to a form of medieval lyric poetry that typically celebrated licentiousness and drinking.
   • This basic structure was used as long as the medieval Latin lyric flourished; the goliardic poems of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries still retain it.1961, Phillip Damon, Modes of Analogy in Ancient and Medieval Verse, page 304
   • The concept of goliardic poetry rests on a series of stylistic traits and the identification of the corpus with the figure of the wandering goliard.1999, Miriam Cabré, Footnote: Cerverí de Girona and His Poetic Traditions, page 53