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1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, music |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index. |
| Summary |
Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once-free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial Russia in 1804. One of 300,000 serfs owned by Count Sheremetev, Nikitenko as a teenager became fiercely determined to gain his freedom. In this memorable and moving book, here translated into English for the first time, Nikitenko recollects the details of his childhood and youth in servitude as well as the six-year struggle that at last delivered him into freedom in 1824. Among the very few autobiographies ever written by an ex-serf, Up from Serfdom provides a unique portrait of serfdom in nineteenth-century Russia and a profoundly clear sense of what such bondage meant to the people, the culture, and the nation. Rising to eminence as a professor at St Petersburg University, former serf Nikitenko set about writing his autobiography in 1851, relying on his own diaries (begun at the age of fourteen and maintained throughout his life), his father's correspondence and documents, and the stories that his parents and grandparents told as he was growing up. He recalls his town, his schooling, his masters and mistresses, and the utter capriciousness of a serf's existence, illustrated most vividly by his father's lurching path from comfort to destitution to prison to rehabilitation. Nikitenko's description of the tragedy, despair, unpredictability, and astounding luck of his youth is a compelling human story that brings to life as never before the experiences of the serf in Russia in the early 1800s. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS""; ""LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS CONSULTED""; ""INTRODUCTION: THE CASE FOR THE WOMEN TROUVERES""; ""VOICES IN DIALOGUE: JEUX-PARTIS AND TENSIONS""; ""1.: Je vous pri, dame Maroie�Dame Margot & Dame Maroie""; ""2. Lorete, suer, par amor�Lorete & Suer""; ""3. Que ferai je, dame de la Chaucie�Sainte des Prez & Dame de la Chaucie""; ""4. Dame de Gosnai, gardez�Dame de Gosnai & Gillebert de Berneville""; ""5. Concilliés moi, Rolan, je vous an pri�Dame & Rolant de Reims"" |
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""6. Douce dame, respondez�Dame & Rolant de Reims""""7. Douce dame, volantiers�Dame & Rolant de Reims""; ""8. Douce dame, vos aveis prins marit�Dame & Rolant de Reims""; ""9.: Douce dame, ce soit en vos nomer�Dame & Perrot de Beaumarchais""; ""10.: Amis, ki est li muelz vaillans�Dame & Ami""; ""11.: Dites, dame, li keilz s�aquitait muelz�Dame & Sire""; ""12.: Dame, merci, une riens vous demant�Blanche de Castille & Thibaut de Champagne""; ""13.: Dites, seignor, que devroit on jugier�Dame & Seignor""; ""VOICES IN MONOLOGUE: CHANSONS""; ""Chansons d'amour"" |
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""14. La froidor ne la jalee""""15.: Mout m�abelist quant je voi revenir�Maroie de Diergnau""; ""16.: Onqes n�amai tant que jou fui amee""; ""17.: Plaine d�ire et de desconfort""; ""Plainte""; ""18. Par maintes fois avrai esteit requise�Duchesse de Lorraine""; ""Chansons d�ami""; ""19. Deduxans suis et joliette, s�amerai""; ""20. Dues, Dues, Dues, D""; ""21. E, bone amourette""; ""22.: Lasse, pour quoi refusai""; ""23.: L�on dit q�amors est dolce chose""; ""24. Osteis ma kenoille! Je ne pux fileir""; ""25. Qui de .ii. biens le millour"" |
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""26. Trop me repent, mais tairt mi suis parsue""""Chansons de croisade""; ""27.: Chanterai por mon corage""; ""28. Jherusalem, grant damage me fais""; ""Aubes""; ""29. Cant voi l�aube dou jor venir""; ""30. Entre moi et mon amin""; ""Chansons de malmariée""; ""31. Au cuer les ai, les jolis malz""; ""32. Mesdixant, c�an tient a vos""; ""33. Por coi me bait mes maris?""; ""34.: Un petit davant lou jor�Duchesse de Lorraine""; ""Chansons pieuses""; ""35.: Amis, amis""; ""36.: Amours, u trop tart me sui pris�Blanche de Castille""; ""37. An paradis bel ami ai"" |
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""38. Je plains et plors come feme dolente""""39.: Li debonnaires Dieus m�a mis en sa pr""; ""40.: Li solaus qui en moy luist est mes deduis""; ""A CIRCLE OF VOICES: RONDEAUX""; ""41. Ainssi doit on aler""; ""42. Amours sont perdues""; ""43. E, mesdixans, Dieus vos puixe honir""; ""44. Hé, Diex, quant vandra""; ""45. Hé, que me demande li miens amis?""; ""46. J�ai ameit et amerai""; ""47. Jai ne lairai por mon mari ne die""; ""48. Je ne [li] deffendrai mie""; ""49. Or n�i serai plus amiete""; ""50.: Soufrés, maris, et si ne vous anuit""; ""51. Toute seule passerai le vert boscage"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Songs in Old French, also printed as text with English translation. |
| Subject |
Trouvères.
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Trouvères. |
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Trouvère songs.
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Trouvère songs. |
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Provençal poetry -- Women authors.
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Provençal poetry -- Women authors. |
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Provençal poetry -- Women authors -- Translations into English.
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French poetry -- To 1500.
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French poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
French poetry -- Women authors.
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French poetry -- Women authors. |
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French poetry -- To 1500 -- Translations into English.
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French poetry -- Women authors -- Translations into English.
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Songs, Old French -- Texts.
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Songs, Old French. |
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Texts.
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Electronic books.
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Translations.
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| Added Author |
Doss-Quinby, Eglal, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Songs of the women trouvères. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001 0300084129 9780300084122 (DLC) 2002281944 (OCoLC)46780476 |
| ISBN |
9780300133752 (electronic book) |
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0300133758 (electronic book) |
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1281722839 |
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9781281722836 |
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0300084129 |
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9780300084122 |
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0300084137 |
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9780300084139 |
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