The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, C.1100-c.1300Occitania, known today as the "south of France," had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created "courtly love" and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries. There are many books on the troubadours, but this is the first comprehensive study of the society in which they lived. For readers of literature it offers a wide-ranging insight into the realities that lay behind the poetic mystique. For historians it opens up an important and neglected area of medieval Europe. |
Contents
Introduction Occitan identity and selfperception | 1 |
Occitan feudalism | 10 |
Knights and nonknightly combatants | 37 |
The knight and chivalry | 62 |
Courts and courtiers | 90 |
Peasants | 120 |
Towns | 151 |
Doctors and medicine | 186 |
Other editions - View all
The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, C.1100-c.1300 Linda M. Paterson Limited preview - 1995 |
The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c.1100-c.1300 Linda M. Paterson No preview available - 1993 |
The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c.1100-c.1300 Linda M. Paterson No preview available - 1993 |
Common terms and phrases
Aigar Albigensian Crusade allod Aquitaine Aragon aristocratic Arnald Avignon bailiff Barberino Baumel Bernard de Gordon Bertran Béziers bishops Bonnassie burghers castle Catalan Catalonia Cathar child chivalry Christian Church Cistercians clergy Comminges consuls count counts of Toulouse court courtly Crotzada Daurel doctors Duby eleventh century female feudal fief Fourquin France Girart de Roussillon Guilhem heresy heretics Higounet Histoire homage Jewish Jews joglar king knighthood knightly knights land Languedoc lord lord's lyric Magnou-Nortier male Marcabru marriage Marseilles Martel medicine medieval mercenaries Middle Ages military monks Montaillou Montpellier moyen âge Mundy Narbonne nobility northern Occitan epic Occitan literature Occitania Old French Ourliac Paris Paterson peasants Peire poem poet Poitiers Poitou Poly Provence Raimbaut Raimon Raimon de Miraval regions role Roman Salerno seigneurial serf sexual siècle social sometimes Song squire thirteenth century Toulousain Toulouse town trobairitz troubadours twelfth century vassalage vassalic woman women