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What and does why it is mean this term to describe applied a Latin to the writer elusive of Archpoet? the High Middle There Ages have been as political, times and why is this term applied to the elusive Archpoet? There have been time when the answers to such questions appeared simple. The mythical hero slumbering at Kyflhauser was an obvious candidate for a Kaiserhymnus , thought interpreters of Salve , mundi domine Z,1 our author's encomium on Barbarossa, during the Third Reich.2 How their views cohered with the older legend of a goliard given to celebrating wine, women and song which persisted after the Second World War has never been explained.3 A vagans for some, an ideologue for others, the Archpoet is as protean as he is prominent in the scholarly literature; and speculation about him has run rife. His character and opinions are deduced from his imagery;4 and we are invited to believe that, far from writing a panegyric of the emperor, he composed a work cas doubleedged as Andrew Marvell's Horatian Ode to Cromwell'.5 Free association has usurped the place of historical facts. Facts about the Archpoet are few. One of them is fundamental: the identification of him with 'Rainald H', a notary in the service of Rainald of Dassel, archchancellor of Italy and archbishop of Cologne, between 1158 and ii67.6The complicity which distinguishes patron and client, unparalleled in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages,7 developed within a context of companionship. Itinerant but no vagans , our author accompanied his chief in the chancery on journeys throughout Germany, Burgundy and Italy. Places and dates of their travels are provided by charters which 'Rainald H' composed and copied. They leave little room for doubt that, more than any other identifiable member of his master's entourage, he remained at Rainald of Dassel's side. There he fulfilled a double function which should not be misunder-
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