The Troubadours
An Introduction
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- Editors:
- Simon Gaunt, King's College London
- Sarah Kay, New York University
- Date Published: July 1999
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521573887
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The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love songs for which the troubadours are renowned, the tradition includes political and satirical poetry, devotional lyrics and bawdy or zany poems. It is also in the troubadour song-books that the only substantial collection of medieval lyrics by women is preserved. This book offers a general introduction to the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays, written by leading scholars from Britain, the US, France, Italy and Spain, trace the historical development and setting of troubadour song, engage with the main trends in troubadour criticism, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to the troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.
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- Comprehensive and invaluable introduction to the troubadours in accessible form
- Sixteen freshly-commissioned essays from world-famous scholars
- Makes available for the first time in English the most recent and sophisticated scholarship on the troubadours
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- Date Published: July 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521573887
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 159 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.642kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus. 1 map 7 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface: How to use this book
Introduction Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay
1. Courtly culture in medieval Occitania Ruth Harvey
2. Fin' amor and the development of the courtly canso Linda Paterson
3. Moral and satirical poetry Catherine Léglu
4. Early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn Stephen G. Nichols
5. The classical period: Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel Gérard Gouiran
6. Later troubadours Michael Routledge
7. The trobairitz Tilde Sankovitch
8. Italian and Catalan troubadours Miriam Cabré
9. Music and versification Margaret Switten
10. Rhetoric and hermeneutics Sarah Spence
11. Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours Maria Luisa Meneghetti
12. The troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque Don Monson
13. Desire and subjectivity Sarah Kay
14. Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem Simon Gaunt
15 The Chansonniers as books William Burgwinkle
16. Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative Sylvia Huot
Appendices
Bibliography.
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