Handbook of the Troubadours

Name: Handbook of the Troubadours
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ISBN: 9780520079762

ISBN-10: 0520079760

ISBN-13: 9780520079762

Edition: 1996

Authors: F. R. P. Akehurst, Judith M. Davis

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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…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/17/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 510
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction F. R. P. Akehurst



An Overview: Why the Troubadous?




The Lyric Texts




Fin'amor




Versification




Music




The Non-lyric Texts




The Vidas and Razos




The Trobairitz




Origins




Northern France




The Minnesingers




The Iberian Peninsula




Italy




Italian Troubadours




Manuscripts




Translation




Language




Rhetoric




Topoi




Imagery and Vocabulary




Bibliography



Appendix: Editions of the Troubadours and Related Works



Contributors


Index