Courts of love, castles of hate : troubadours & trobairitz in Southern France, 1071-1321 / Aubrey Burl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burl, Aubrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Troubadours--France, Southern.

Courts of love--France, Southern.

Provençal poetry--History and criticism.

Provençal poetry.

Courts of love.

Troubadours.

Southern France.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chalford, Stroud, Gloucestershire : History Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 The Art of Courtly Love 1

2 Before Troubadours: War-Songs, Wanderers and Wives 17

3 An Occitan Legend 32

4 Guilhem of Poitiers and the Poetry of Sex, 1071-1127 33

5 Jaufre Rudel and Two Loves: Near and Far, to AD 1150 62

6 Cathars and Catholics: Confrontations, Mid-Twelfth Century 86

7 The Glory of the Troubadours, Late Twelfth Century 91

8 A Melody of Troubadours, Twelfth Century 119

9 An Age of Remarkable Women, c. AD 1200 145

10 Bertran de Born and the Love of War, c. 1140-1200 166

11 The Death of Courts and the Loss of Castles, 1209-1229 181

12 Troubadours abandon a Hostile Languedoc, 1229-1321 201

(a) Compact discs 216

(b) Codification of Troubadours and Trobairitz 220

2 Omar Khayyam, his Rubaiyyat and Edward Fitzgerald 222

3 A Love that never Died. Song and Sorrow in Northern France 225

4 The Ballad of Fair Rosamund 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [260]-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780750945363

0750945362

OCLC:

227920066