The Troubadours

Linda M. Paterson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
9781789149197 (ISBN)

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From royalty to minstrels, troubadours sang of medieval love, war and society.

Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from kings and nobles to penniless minstrels. This book tells the story of the lives and art of these remarkable poet-musicians, famed for their brilliant, innovative use of words and music, and the emotional power of their compositions. The troubadours’ songs explored new ideas of love – the infamous ‘courtly love’ – as well as medieval perceptions of gender, class, war, chivalry, religion and the Crusades. Linda M. Paterson examines the troubadours’ music and performance, as well as their legacy, balancing insightful quotations in English translation with the original texts to highlight the forms and sounds of the poetry.

Linda M. Paterson is Professor Emerita at the University of Warwick and has published widely on the troubadours and the crusades. Her books include Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137–1336 (2018).

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Guilhem ix
Chapter 2: Jaufre Rudel
Chapter 3: Marcabru
Chapter 4: Bernart de Ventadorn
Chapter 5: The trobairitz
Chapter 6: Arnaut Daniel
Chapter 7: Bertran de Born
Chapter 8: Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
Chapter 9: Folquet de Marselha
Afterword
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Medieval Lives
Zusatzinfo	40 illustrations, 33 in colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781789149197 / 9781789149197
Zustand	Neuware