The Troubadours

The Troubadours
Author: Simon Gaunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1999-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316582620

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 songs for which the troubadours are renowned, the tradition includes political and satirical poetry, devotional lyrics and bawdy or zany poems. It is also in the troubadour song-books that the only substantial collection of medieval lyrics by women is preserved. This book offers a general introduction to the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays, written by leading scholars from Britain, the US, France, Italy and Spain, trace the historical development and setting of troubadour song, engage with the main trends in troubadour criticism, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to the troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.

A Handbook of the Troubadours

A Handbook of the Troubadours
Author: F. R. P. Akehurst
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520913000

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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. 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

Stolen Song

Stolen Song
Author: Eliza Zingesser
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501747630

Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.

Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres

Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres
Author: Samuel N. Rosenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134819218

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Songs of the Women Troubadours

Songs of the Women Troubadours
Author: Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135577803

This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts. English versions facing Occitan texts elucidate the original language and themes, while supplying poems that can be enjoyed by contemporary readers . The varied corpus includes love songs (cansos), debate poems (tensos), political satires (sirventes) and other lyrical sub-genres (including dawn-song, lament, ballad, chanson de mal mariee). To represent the range of female voices available in the lyric corpus of the troubadours, the editors have selected songs consistently attributed to historically documented women poets, as well as songs whose authorship is open to question. The latter may be presented by the manuscripts with or without a named woman poet, but all offer female speakers personae characteristic of troubadour poets in general.

Lark in the Morning

Lark in the Morning
Author: Robert Kehew
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 723
Release: 2005-09-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0226429334

Robert Kehew augments his own verse translations with those of Pound & Snodgrass, to provide a collection that captures both the poetic pyrotechnics of the original verse & the astonishing variety of troubadour voices.

The World of the Troubadours

The World of the Troubadours
Author: Linda M. Paterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1995-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521558327

Occitania, known today as the "south of France," had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created "courtly love" and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries. There are many books on the troubadours, but this is the first comprehensive study of the society in which they lived. For readers of literature it offers a wide-ranging insight into the realities that lay behind the poetic mystique. For historians it opens up an important and neglected area of medieval Europe.

The Music of the Troubadours

The Music of the Troubadours
Author: Elizabeth Aubrey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253213891

"The Music of the Troubadours is the first comprehensive critical study of the extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, then provides brief biographies of the troubadours whose music survives. The four manuscripts that transmit this music are described in detail, with attention to their genesis in the overlapping roles of composers, singers, and scribes"--Back cover

The Vidas of The Troubadours

The Vidas of The Troubadours
Author: Margarita Egan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 042958119X

Published in 1984: These texts which have been little studied for their literary qualities represent a vital link between the didactic tradition of the Middle Ages and the fictional short stories of the Renaissance, such as the thirteenth-century collection of tales known as the Novellino, and later, Boccaccio's Decameron.

The Troubadours

The Troubadours
Author: Robert Briffault
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1965
Genre: Chansons de geste
ISBN:

Assays the role of the roving entertainers of twelfth century France, their poems and songs, and their effect on subsequent literature.