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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.
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.
Price: $38.95
Pages: 508
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA
Publication Date:
17 November 1995
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9780520079762
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
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.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
F. R P. Akehurst
1. An Overview: Why the Troubadours?
Paul Zumthor
The Essentials
2. The Lyric Texts
Amelia E. Van Weck
3. Fin'amor
Moshe Lazar
4. Versification
Frank M. Chambers
5. Music
Hendrik van der Werf
Accessory Texts
6. The Non-lyric Texts
Suzanne fleischman
7. The Vidas and Razos
Elizabeth W Poe
A Subgroup: The Women Troubadours
8. The Trobairitz
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Origins and Diffusion
g. Origins
Gerald A. Bond
10. Northern France
Deborah H. Nelson
11. The Minnesingers
Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden
12. The Iberian Peninsula
Joseph T. Snow
13. Italy
Ronald Martinez
14. Italian Troubadours
Hans-Erich Kel1£r
General and Technical Considerations
15. Manuscripts
William D. Paden
16. Translation
Roy S. Rosenstein
17. Language
Frede Jensen
18. Rhetoric
Nathaniel B. Smith
19. Topoi
Elisabeth Schulze-Busacker
20. Imagery and Vocabulary
Eliza Miruna Ghil
21. Bibliography
Robert Taylor
Appendix: Editions of the Troubadours and Related Works
F. R P. Akehurst and Robert Taylor
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Introduction
F. R P. Akehurst
1. An Overview: Why the Troubadours?
Paul Zumthor
The Essentials
2. The Lyric Texts
Amelia E. Van Weck
3. Fin'amor
Moshe Lazar
4. Versification
Frank M. Chambers
5. Music
Hendrik van der Werf
Accessory Texts
6. The Non-lyric Texts
Suzanne fleischman
7. The Vidas and Razos
Elizabeth W Poe
A Subgroup: The Women Troubadours
8. The Trobairitz
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Origins and Diffusion
g. Origins
Gerald A. Bond
10. Northern France
Deborah H. Nelson
11. The Minnesingers
Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden
12. The Iberian Peninsula
Joseph T. Snow
13. Italy
Ronald Martinez
14. Italian Troubadours
Hans-Erich Kel1£r
General and Technical Considerations
15. Manuscripts
William D. Paden
16. Translation
Roy S. Rosenstein
17. Language
Frede Jensen
18. Rhetoric
Nathaniel B. Smith
19. Topoi
Elisabeth Schulze-Busacker
20. Imagery and Vocabulary
Eliza Miruna Ghil
21. Bibliography
Robert Taylor
Appendix: Editions of the Troubadours and Related Works
F. R P. Akehurst and Robert Taylor
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX