A Handbook of the Troubadours
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A Handbook of the Troubadours

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  2. English
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A Handbook of the Troubadours

About this book

This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which is celebrated in the elaborately rhymed stanzas of troubadour verse, creations whose words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over medieval Europe. The words of about 2, 500 troubadour songs have survived, along with 250 melodies, and all have come under intense scholarly scrutiny. This Handbook brings together the fruits of this scrutiny, giving teachers and students an overview of the fundamental issues in troubadour scholarship. All quotations are given in the original Old Occitan and in English. The editors provide a list of troubadour editions and an index, and each chapter includes a list of additional readings.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520079762
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520913004
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Medieval History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. Introduction
  4. ONE. An Overview: Why the Troubadours?
  5. The Essentials
  6. TWO. The Lyric Texts
  7. THREE. Fin 'amor
  8. FOUR. Versification
  9. FIVE. Music
  10. Accessory Texts
  11. SIX. The Non-lyric Texts
  12. SEVEN. The Vidas and Razos
  13. A Subgroup: The Women Troubadours
  14. EIGHT. The Trobairitz
  15. NINE. Origins
  16. TEN. Northern France
  17. ELEVEN. The Minnesingers
  18. THIRTEEN. Italy
  19. FOURTEEN. Italian Troubadours
  20. General and Technical Considerations
  21. FIFTEEN. Manuscripts
  22. SIXTEEN. Translation
  23. SEVENTEEN. Language
  24. EIGHTEEN. Rhetoric
  25. NINETEEN. Topoi
  26. TWENTY. Imagery and Vocabulary
  27. TWENTY-ONE. Bibliography
  28. Appendix: Editions of the Troubadours and Related Works
  29. CONTRIBUTORS
  30. INDEX

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