In a tumultuous era like the Middle Ages (12th-13th century), a witty and confused society of clerics and scholars, known as the Goliardi, opposed the establishment and rejected its sterile theories. The Erotic Carmina Burana (Carmina Veris et Amoris) are the most numerous yet also the most representative of the personalities of their creators.

While the model of chivalrous refined love prevailed throughout Europe, dominated by the work De Amore by Andreas Capellanus, the C.B. surprised with their sensuality and aestheticism. Woman is never portrayed as an unattainable being; she appears with the plasticity of a Venus, whose grace and physical virtues the poet praises in a free and often provocative manner.

The Goliardi passionately love women and see her role with greater freedom and a spirit of progress. They consider love, both spiritual and carnal, a right and necessary act for nature to be perpetuated in its forms and kinds. Nature, and particularly its blooming, spring, is no longer a mysterious opponent but a loving companion of the Goliardi; it is the close bond between the two elements of the creation of love, spirit and body.