12th century european art history
13th century european art history
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Author_Judith M. Davis
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center for medieval and renaissance studies ucla
composers
courtly love
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european literature
female troubadours
france
french troubadours
iberian peninsula
imagery
italian troubadours
italy
medieval literary criticism
medieval literature
medieval occitan studies
minnesingers
modern european verse
music
non lyric text
poets
topoi
troubadour poetry
troubadour studies
troubadour verse
troubadours
versification
vocabulary
Product details
- ISBN 9780520079762
- Weight: 816g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 1995
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
F.R.P. Akehurst is Professor of French at the University of Minnesota. He is the translator of The Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Philippe de Beaumanoir (1992). Judith M. Davis is Professor of French and Humanities at Goshen College.
