The Troubadours: An Introduction Book

	List of contributors
	Preface
	Map of Occitania and neighbouring Catalonia
	Introduction	1
1	Courtly culture in medieval Occitania	8
2	Fin'amor and the development of the courtly canso	28
3	Moral and satirical poetry	47
4	The early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn	66
5	The classical period: from Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel	83
6	The later troubadours	99
7	The trobairitz	113
8	Italian and Catalan troubadours	127
9	Music and versification	141
10	Rhetoric and hermeneutics	164
11	Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours	181
12	The troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque	197
13	Desire and subjectivity	212
14	Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem	228
15	The chansonniers as books	246
16	Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative	263
App. 1	Major troubadours	279
App. 2	Occitan terms	292
App. 3	Research tools and reference works	295
App. 4	The chansonniers	303
	Bibliography	306
	Index	325