Troubadour Texts and Contexts
Essays in Honor of Wendy Pfeffer
Published on 3. December 2024
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-84384-733-5 (ISBN)
Description
New interpretations of different aspects of troubadour texts and lyrics, from their main themes and motifs to their reception and influence.
Nearly a millennium after their songs of love, politics, war, satire, and redemption began to fill the courts of Europe, the troubadours continue to fascinate modern audiences. However, many aspects of their work, such as the supposedly adulterous nature of fin'amor, the "Frenchness" of the troubadours, the biographical veracity of the vidas, and the inherent misogyny of the troubadour lyric, have long been taken for granted. This volume takes a fresh look at these ideas, questioning many of the formative assumptions of troubadour scholarship, and proposing alternative readings of many canonical texts.
Essays offer a reconsideration of the reception of works by such important figures as Guilhem IX, Jaufre Rudel, Peire Vidal, Pistoleta, Guilhem Adhemar, Giraut de Borneil, Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and Arnaut Daniel. There are also examinations of the lexicon and cultural uses of chess, azure and tin, and the changing landscape of the Rhone delta, providing a deeper understanding of the imagery they furnished. Other essays consider the later life of the manuscripts, including the surprising story of how Napoleon demanded certain Occitan manuscripts after his conquest of Italy. The collection as a whole is thus a fitting tribute to the pioneering work of Wendy Pfeffer, who has made such a contribution to the field of troubadour studies.
Nearly a millennium after their songs of love, politics, war, satire, and redemption began to fill the courts of Europe, the troubadours continue to fascinate modern audiences. However, many aspects of their work, such as the supposedly adulterous nature of fin'amor, the "Frenchness" of the troubadours, the biographical veracity of the vidas, and the inherent misogyny of the troubadour lyric, have long been taken for granted. This volume takes a fresh look at these ideas, questioning many of the formative assumptions of troubadour scholarship, and proposing alternative readings of many canonical texts.
Essays offer a reconsideration of the reception of works by such important figures as Guilhem IX, Jaufre Rudel, Peire Vidal, Pistoleta, Guilhem Adhemar, Giraut de Borneil, Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and Arnaut Daniel. There are also examinations of the lexicon and cultural uses of chess, azure and tin, and the changing landscape of the Rhone delta, providing a deeper understanding of the imagery they furnished. Other essays consider the later life of the manuscripts, including the surprising story of how Napoleon demanded certain Occitan manuscripts after his conquest of Italy. The collection as a whole is thus a fitting tribute to the pioneering work of Wendy Pfeffer, who has made such a contribution to the field of troubadour studies.
Reviews / Votes
In all, Troubadour Texts and Context: Essays in Honor of Wendy Pfeffer suggests the vitality and variousness of current troubadour studies; it is thus a reflection of, as well as a tribute to, the work Dr. Pfeffer. Since it features scholars engaging with the texts and critical issues at a fairly high level, this volume is best suited to-and is probably required reading for-instructors, researchers, and graduate students, who will all profit from the contributors' exemplary work in various methodologies: close reading, material philology, textual criticism, codicology, and reception. * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING * Troubadour Texts and Contexts is a great addition to the already extensive literature on the medieval troubadours. * THE CONSORT *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
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1 music ex and 10 b/w illus.
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
669 gr
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978-1-84384-733-5 (9781843847335)
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Troubadour Texts and Contexts
Essays in Honor of Wendy Pfeffer
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Unknown | Courtney Joseph Wells | Lisa Shugert Bevevino
Troubadour Texts and Contexts
Essays in Honor of Wendy Pfeffer
E-Book
12/2024
1st Edition
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
€48.99
Available for download
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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.
Content
Introduction
Courtney Joseph Wells
Part I. Re-examining Troubadour Tropes and Themes
1. Reflections on Origins: How Troubadour Poetry Began
William D. Paden
2. Quirky Consumables: Guilhem IX's Metaphors of Joi and Joc
Matilda 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 Pistoleta
Daniel 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 Texts
7. 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 Leglu
10. Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and the Expanding Economy of the Rhone River Delta
Constance H. Berman
Part III. The Legacy of Old Occitan and Troubadour Texts in Later Cultural Contexts
11. Old Occitan Songbooks in Cinquecento Florence
Walter Meliga
12. Un disio di parlare: A Vertical Reading of Canto 26 in Dante's Divina Commedia
Sarah Spence
13. Jujar, to proensalesco: The Mythification of Occitan in the Theater of Dario Fo
Giuseppe 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
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria
Courtney Joseph Wells
Part I. Re-examining Troubadour Tropes and Themes
1. Reflections on Origins: How Troubadour Poetry Began
William D. Paden
2. Quirky Consumables: Guilhem IX's Metaphors of Joi and Joc
Matilda 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 Pistoleta
Daniel 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 Texts
7. 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 Leglu
10. Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and the Expanding Economy of the Rhone River Delta
Constance H. Berman
Part III. The Legacy of Old Occitan and Troubadour Texts in Later Cultural Contexts
11. Old Occitan Songbooks in Cinquecento Florence
Walter Meliga
12. Un disio di parlare: A Vertical Reading of Canto 26 in Dante's Divina Commedia
Sarah Spence
13. Jujar, to proensalesco: The Mythification of Occitan in the Theater of Dario Fo
Giuseppe 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
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria