A Handbook of the Troubadours. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA: 26.

Akehurst, F. R. P. and Judith M. Davis (Hgg.):

ISBN 10: 0520079760 / ISBN 13: 9780520079762

Published by University of California Press, 1995

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502 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Guter Zustand, Einband und Schnitt leicht berieben / Good condition, binding and book cut minimally worn. - The troubadours were the prime poets and composers of their time and place, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the south of France. They sang of Jinamor, or refined love, to a courtly audience in elaborately rhymed stanzas, and they included a small group of female troubadours, or trobairitz. Their words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over the world. 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. ISBN 9780520079762 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 833.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Handbook of the Troubadours. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA: 26.
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520079760
• ISBN 13: 9780520079762
• Binding: Softcover.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 833 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kulturgeschichte

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.