A handbook of the Troubadours
1995
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This is a reference work and digest on more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. The book summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies and provides a list of troubadour editions, with each chapter including a list of additional readings. 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.
Main title:
A handbook of the Troubadours / edited by F.R.P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis.
Author:
Akehurst, F. R. P., editorDavis, Judith M. (Judith Mary), editor
Imprint:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995] 1995
Collation:
vii, 502 pages : map (black and white) ; 23 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Text in English with some Provencal.
Contents:
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 Kel1Dr 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
ISBN:
9780520079762 (pbk)
Dewey class:
849.1209
LC class:
PC3304
Language:
EnglishProvençal (to 1500)
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BRN:
695481