Troubadour Texts and Contexts

COURTNEY JOSEPH WELLS is Associate Professor of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. LISA SHUGERT BEVEVINO is Associate Professor of French and Latin at the University of Minnesota Morris. SARAH-GRACE HELLER is Associate Professor and Chair of French and Italian at the Ohio State University. LINDA PATERSON is Professor Emerita at Warwick University. MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, Professor Emerita of French (Boston College), has published numerous books and articles on 12th and 13th century romance and lyric in Old French and Occitan. Her research and publications also include animal studies, narrative in verse and prose and, most recently, a turn to Jewish-Christian relations and the Bible.

• Introduction Courtney Joseph Wells Part I. Re-examining Troubadour Tropes and Themes1. Reflections on Origins: How Troubadour Poetry Began William D. Paden 2. Quirky Consumables: Guilhem IX's Metaphors of Joi and JocMatilda Tomaryn Bruckner 3. Two anonymous troubadour texts: Quan vei la flor sobre.l sambuc (BEdT 461.205) and Cant me donet l'anel daurat (BEdT 461.203a) Linda Paterson 4. Rereading Peire Vidal's Baron, de mon dan covit (BEdT 364.7) Francesco Carapezza (translated by Courtney Joseph Wells) 5. Restoring PistoletaDaniel E. O'Sullivan 6. Vashti and Esther in Occitania: The Value of Place-Based Knowledge and Inclusive Scholarship Lisa Shugert Bevevino Part II. Materiality of/within Occitan Texts7. Napoleon's Troubadours Elizabeth K. Hebbard 8. Knights, Pawns, and Troubadours: Constructing Troubadour Identity through the Arabic Language of Chess Mary Franklin-Brown 9. Azure and Tin in the Canso Nuilla res by Giraut de Borneil Catherine Léglu 10. Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and the Expanding Economy of the Rhone River Delta Constance H. BermanPart III. The Legacy of Old Occitan and Troubadour Texts in Later Cultural Contexts11. Old Occitan Songbooks in Cinquecento Florence Walter Meliga 12. Un disio di parlare: A Vertical Reading of Canto 26 in Dante's Divina CommediaSarah Spence 13. Jujar, to proensalesco: The Mythification of Occitan in the Theater of Dario FoGiuseppe Noto (Translated by Courtney Joseph Wells) 14. Jaufre Rudel Hits the Beaches of the Twenty-first Century: From Robertsonian to Lacanian? Roy Rosenstein List of Wendy Pfeffer's Publications IndexTabula Gratulatoria

Troubadour Texts and Contexts is a great addition to the already extensive literature on the medieval troubadours.