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.
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'This is a book of major importance to all medievalists ... The world of the troubadours successfully challenges or at leaxst questions many of the received orthodoxies about the South of France ... Dr Paterson's erudition and grasp of her subject are enviable, and she has produced a book which will certainly become a classic in its field.' The Times Literary Supplement
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northern French romance writers, the troubadours are little stirred by the mythical Orient. Within Christendom, they have a rather clear sense of regional identity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
free fief, vassalic ties, banal lordship, seigneurial agents, urban knights, servile homage, early troubadours, ooo knights, les troubadours, vassal knights, dubbing ceremonies, des cathares, knighting ceremonies, women troubadours, des troubadours, court festivals, troubadour poetry, medieval machine, troubadour lyric, organized peace, medieval misogyny, seigneurial rights, mercenary bands, anonymous poet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Girart de Roussillon, Song of the Albigensian Crusade, Old French, Bernard de Gordon, Raimon de Miraval, Bernart Marti, New York, Raimon of Avignon, Raimon Vidal, Simon de Montfort, Bertran de Born, First Crusade, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Arnald of Villanova, Bernard of Provence, Giraut de Borneil, Amanieu de Sescas, Geoffrey of Vigeois, Guilhem de Tudela, Holy Land, Bernart de Ventadorn, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Francesco da Barberino, Guilhem of Congeinna New!
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- The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption on 7 pages
- History of Britain 03 Middle by Tim Wood on 4 pages
- Heresies of the High Middle Ages by Walter Wakefield on page 330, and Back Matter
- Arnald of Villanova by Lynn Thorndike on page 207
- The Golden Age by Gore Vidal on page 103
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- Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Roger French on page 126, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Roberta L. Krueger on page 58, and page 95
- Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England by Margaret Howell on page 3
- Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus (New Middle Ages) by William E. Burgwinkle in Back Matter
- Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (New Middle Ages) by Barbara Stevenson in Back Matter
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