The Troubadours: An Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521574730)

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.

Author: Simon Gaunt
ISBN-10: 0521574730
ISBN-13: 9780521574730
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/28/1999
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.05w x 0.84d