The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, C.1100 C.1300 Paterson LindaPaperback
The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, C.1100 C.1300 Paterson LindaPaperback Occitania, known today as the "south of France," had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages.…
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The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, C.1100 C.1300 Paterson LindaPaperback
Occitania, known today as the "south of France," had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. There are many books on the troubadours, but this is the first comprehensive study of the society in which they lived. Its troubadours created "courtly love" and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries.
For historians it opens up an important and neglected area of medieval For readers of literature it offers a wide-ranging insight into the realities that lay behind the poetic mystique.