The Troubadours: An Introduction

by Simon Gaunt (Editor), Sarah Kay (Editor)

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This book offers a general introduction to the world of the troubadours. Its sixteen chapters, newly commissioned from leading scholars in Britain, the United States, France, Italy and Spain, trace the development of troubadour song (including music), engage with the main trends in troubadour scholarship, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry in manuscripts and in Northern French romance. A series of appendices offer an invaluable guide to more than fifty troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.

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Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 28, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521574730
ISBN-13: 978-0521574730
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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By Andrew M. Lemons on December 23, 2005

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I am a student of one of the contributors to this volume, and work indirectly with a few others. I must offer some response to the previous review before too many would-be readers are needlessly turned away from a very useful book.

I agree with the previous reviewer on one point only, that this book should not be called an "Introduction." For the newcomer to Troubadour lyric, I recommend one of the many anthologies with facing-page translation. The brand new "Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours, a Bilingual Edition" by Kehew is quite nice. Ezra Pound wrote some excellent essays on the Troubadours in this "Literary Essays." And if you REALLY want to dive in, try William Paden's "Introduction to Old Occitan," and learn to read the Troubadours in the original.

As to the present volume. The previous review hammers to death the point that the academic English of this book is too recondite. I disagree. The writing style of these essays, though academic, is still accessible to anyone who has already had some experience with the Troubadours. After all, every profession has its own dialect that takes getting used to.

Far from "sterilizing" the topic, these essays give a sample of the very latest ideas about the Troubadours. No, it is not a good introduction for the first-time reader of the Troubadours. But it is a wonderful introduction for an already interested reader who wants to cut deeper into the subject. The table of contents reads like a who's who of the best contemporary thinkers on Provencal poetry. Their work is the product of decades of careful research, is always valuable, and often poignant.

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18 of 34 people found the following review helpful

A Compelling, Romantic Topic Sterilized by "Scholars"

By First Things First on October 7, 2003

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This book is blatantly misnamed. It is not an "introduction" to the troubadours, at least not according to MY understanding of that word. It is a collection of 16 essays written by "scholars." Although the first two or three essayists do a reasonable, if sterile, job of grounding us in the times and places of the troubadours - the courtly poets and singers of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, nearly every subsequent essay is a pedantic, sesquipedalian harangue, each one seeming to focus on a more arcane and esoteric substratum of troubadour minutiae than its predecessor. At times, the language employed by a few of the essayists is completely over the top, even by scholarly standards. One could easily get the impression while trying to plow through several exasperating chapters, that the last thing their authors would ever deign to give us - mere lay readers after all - is a simple, reasonably compelling word picture of the human beings who inhabited the courts and wrote and sang and preserved troubadour poetry. (Now that we're dreaming, some more descriptions of those courts would surely have been interesting and improved our knowledge of the places where courtly poetry was a form of social currency. And how about sharing a few more stories of the troubadours themselves and the ladies to whom they sang, and their contemporaries whom they debated and befriended, and what they wore and what they ate and if anyone has ever tried to record the imperfectly preserved melodies in the manuscripts on modern recording equipment...Read more ›

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