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Troubadours

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-07-15
Mått138 x 216 x 27 mm
Vikt592 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedieval Lives
Antal sidor256
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789149197

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Paterson has published widely on Crusade subjects and on the troubadours. This senior scholar’s authoritative summing-up takes us across an array of standard Troubadour poets and will be a basic starting point for future researchers . . . A generous introduction covers the historical and cultural environment, the poets’ social circumstances, the courts, poetic genres and poetic craft, music, and performance. More than 40 color and black-and-white illustrations adorn the text . . . [an] indispensable reference work. Essential.