Linda Paterson, Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania, Farnham (Surrey)

Linda Paterson, Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania, Farnham (Surrey) – Burlington (VT), Ashgate, 2011 («Variorum»).

ISBN 9978-1-4094-2398-0, 85,00 sterline

INDICE. Introduction. Identity. I. Was there an Occitan identity in the Middle Ages? Women: Marriage, Property, Love and Sin. II. L’épouse et la formation du lien conjugal selon la littérature occitane du XIe au XIIIe s.: mutations d’une institution et condition féminine; III. Women, property and the rise of Courtly Love; IV. L’obscénité du clerc: le troubadour Marcabru et la sculpture ecclésiastique as XIIe siècle en Aquitaine et dans l’Espagne du nord; V. Marcabru et le lignage de Caïn: Bel m’es cant son li frug madur (PC 293.13). Knights and ‘Chivalry’: Literary Evidence. VI. The concept of knighthood in the 12th-century Occitan lyric; VII. La Chanson de la Croisade albigeoise: mythes chevaleresques et réalités militaires; VIII. The Occitan squire in the 12th and 13th centuries; IX. A propos de la datation de Raimon d’Anjou. Court Culture. X. Tournaments and knightly sports in 12th- and 13th-century Occitania; XI. Great court festivals in the South of France and Catalonia in the 12th and 13th centuries; XII. Les tensons et partimens; XIII. Jeux poétiques et communication des valeurs: les tensos et partimens des troubadours; XIV. Insultes, amour et une trobairitz: la tenso de Raimbaut de Vaqueiras et Albert Malaspina; XV. Writing the present: Boniface II of Montferrat and Frederick II Hohenstaufen. Medicine. XVI. La médecine en Occitanie avant 1250; XVII. Military surgery: knights, sergeants and Raimon of Avignon’s version of the Chirurgia of Roger of Salerno (1180-1209). Troubadours and the Crusades. XVIII. Occitan literature and the Holy Land; XIX. Legal agreements in the Occitan Canso d’Antioca; XX. Syria, Poitou and the reconquista (or Tales of the undead): who was the Count in Marcabru’s Vers del lavador? Addenda. Index.

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