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1 online resource (461 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Title; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; One -- The Art of Courtly Love; Two -- Before Troubadours: War-Songs, Wanderers and Wives; Three -- An Occitan Legend; Four -- Guilhem of Poitiers and the Poetry of Sex, 1071-1127; Five -- Jaufré Rudel and Two Loves: Near and Far, to AD 1150; Six -- Cathars and Catholics: Confrontations, Mid-Twelfth Century; Seven -- The Glory of the Troubadours, Late Twelfth Century; Eight -- A Melody of Troubadours, Twelfth Century; Nine -- An Age of Remarkable Women, c. AD 1200; Ten -- Bertran de Born and the Love of War, c. 1140-1200. |
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Eleven -- The Death of Courts and the Loss of Castles, 1209-1229Twelve -- Troubadours abandon a Hostile Languedoc, 1229-1321; Appendix One (a) Compact Discs (b) Codification of Troubadours and Trobairitz; Appendix Two Omar Khayyam, his Rubaiyat and Edward Fitzgerald; Appendix Three A Love that Never Died. Song and Sorrow in Northern France; Appendix Four The Ballad of Fair Rosamund; Bibliography; Plates; Copyright. |
| Summary |
The figure of the Troubadour combines the ideals of knighthood with the inspiration of the poet and musician and created a cultural explosion which influenced the whole course of Western art and civilisation. Burl traces the story from the birth of the first Troubadour in 1071 to the execution of the last Cathar Good Man in 1231 and the close of the distinctive southern French culture that had given rise to it. The tale incorporates the Cusades to the Holy Lands and the Albigensian crusades through the Languedoc and the regular incursions from the English. In telling his story of the Troubadours and their song he brings to life the world of medieval Languedoc. The author is acknowledged as an authority on the Troubadours, one of the most evocative subjects in history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Troubadours -- France, Southern.
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Troubadours. |
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Southern France. |
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Courts of love -- France, Southern.
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Courts of love. |
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Provençal poetry -- History and criticism.
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Provençal poetry. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Burl, Aubrey. Courts of Love, Castles of Hate. New York : The History Press, 2011 9780752475325 |
| ISBN |
9780752475325 (electronic book) |
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0752475320 |
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