Marcabru: A Critical Edition (Hardcover)

New critical edition of complete work of 12c Occitanian troubadour Marcabru, crucial figure in development of European courtly lyric. One of the earliest troubadours, Marcabru was a remarkable artist and entertainer, and a figure of crucial importance to the development of the European courtly lyric. His blistering attacks on contemporary court society reveal anintellectual insider's view of the clash between clerical morality and the emerging secular ethics of love and courtesy. His fervent, often acerbic engagement with contemporary events also provides a unique southern perspective on political upheavals and crusading movements in twelfth-century Occitania and northern Spain. This new critical edition, the first for nearly 100 years, makes his complete corpus accessible to a wide readership, supplying translations, full critical apparatus, and copious textual notes, with a substantial glossary of Marcabru's extraordinarily inventive vocabulary. The introduction supplies historical information, discussion of the poet's language, andan analysis of the manuscript transmission. It also raises fresh issues of troubadour versification techniques in this formative period, and engages in a new way with the current debate about editorial methodology and medieval textual criticism. [Leaflet blurb - see AN]

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Simon Gaunt • Ruth Harvey • Linda Paterson
As told to:	John Marshall (Royalty Account)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	622
ISBN-13:	978-0-85991-574-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti Promotions
LSN:	0-85991-574-3
Barcode:	9780859915748

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