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Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania (Paperback)
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Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Medieval Occitania, a geographical and linguistic area often
referred to as 'the South of France', 'the South', 'the Midi', or
more loosely 'Provence', was politically diverse but culturally
coherent. It was here that the troubadours created Courtly Love and
a new poetic language, which together were to affect the whole
course of European literature and sensibilities. The essays made
readily accessible in this collection reflect the author's
many-sided interests in the troubadours and the society from which
they sprang: the historical and cultural place of the women forming
the ostensible objects of their desire, veneration, or anxieties;
the extent to which French notions of chivalry penetrated the
South; the nature and meaning of various elements of court culture;
the precocious development of medical science in this region; its
complex responses to the Crusades; and the question of Occitan
identity. Mostly complementing her major publications (The World of
the Troubadours, collaborative editions of the songs of the
troubadour Marcabru, of the epic fragment the Canso d'Antioca, and
of the medieval Occitan tensos and partimens), they provide either
more detailed material than found its way into those works, or
developments from them. 'Occitan literature and the Holy Land'
anticipates a new project on responses to the Crusades in Occitan
and Old French lyrics.
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