Notre Dame Conductus and the Renewal of Speech at the Turn of the 12th and 13th Centuries
Résumé
The revival of pastoral speech in the thirteenth century was a movement with roots in the scholarly culture and theological texts of the "moral biblical school" of the twelfth century. It answered a long-established aspiration on the part of the clergy to broadcast the word of God and to make the Bible message accessible to the faithful. But it was also inscribed in a new world, in which the clerics felt the urge to arm themselves with words against heresies, both near and far, and to look for means to fight against the moral dissolution of the urban communities in the context of the advent of the University.