The troubadours : an introduction / edited by Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay.

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 so...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Gaunt, Simon, Kay, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Old Provençal
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Courtly culture in medieval Occitania / Ruth Harvey
  • Fin'amor and the development of the courtly canso / Linda Paterson
  • Moral and satirical poetry / Catherine Léglu
  • Early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn / Stephen G. Nichols
  • Classical period: from Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel / Gérard Gouiran
  • Later troubadours / Michael Routledge
  • Trobairitz / Tilde Sankovitch
  • Italian and Catalan troubadours / Miriam Cabré
  • Music and versification / Margaret Switten
  • Rhetoric and hermeneutics / Sarah Spence
  • Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours / Maria Luisa Meneghetti
  • Troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque / Don A. Monson
  • Desire and subjectivity / Sarah Kay
  • Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem / Simon Gaunt
  • Chansonniers as books / William Burgwinkle
  • Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative / Sylvia Huot.