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William D. Paden
"The Reader provides thirty medieval lyric poems in Occitan for L2 learners. Each has glosses in the margin, notes after each stanza, and a brief introduction. A section introduces basic…
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Opening not only a reconsideration of genre in medieval European lyric, this book also re-examines the notion of genre itself, showing that it should be considered as an historical phenomenon…
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An Introduction to Old Occitan is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages. Each of the thirty-two…
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, southern France witnessed first a burgeoning, then a decline in the poetry of women troubadours-trobairitz. The Voice of the Trobairitz includes eleven original studies…
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Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence.
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Modern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems.
Guillelmus de Aragonia
Working in a renewed Aristotelian tradition, Guillelmus de Aragonia wrote De nobilitate animi, On Nobility of Mind, around 1280-1290 and taught that true nobility is an acquired, not inborn, quality…
