A Handbook of the Troubadours: Volume 26

by F.R.P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis

Book Overview

This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520079760
• ISBN13: 9780520079762
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"