Occitan Studies 213

LITERATURE By Catherine Le´ glu, Lecturer in French, University of Bristol

1. Medieval Period Elizabeth W. Poe, Compilatio: Lyric Texts and Prose Commentaries in Troubadour Manuscript H (Vat. Lat. 3207) (The Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature, 11), Lexington, Kentucky, French Forum, 307 pp., is a detailed study with edition and comment- ary of the prose commentary section (ff. 47–49) of this codex. Drawing on codicological analyses of H, P. suggests that the codex is mostly the work of one scholarly compiler who had access to many sources owned or composed by Uc de Saint-Circ, and who was pursuing his own private project. Among other insights, P. notes that the famous trobairitz collection is framed by parodic and misogynistic texts, that there is a discernable compilation of occasional, satirical coblas esparsas by Uc de Saint-Circ, and that the ‘commentary collection’ is itself a compilation from several other sources. P. points out the connections between MSS H and D, and the florilegia in MSS J and Da). This study links well with the work of Saverio Guida and William Burgwinkle on the key role played by Uc de Saint-Circ in developing the written troubadour tradition in Italy (see YWMLS, 60:204). Catherine Le´glu, Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric (Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies, 8), Oxford, Legenda, x + 147 pp., presents the relationship between a micro-corpus of satirical poems attributed to Marcabru, Peire d’Alvernha, Peire Cardenal, and others, and the paraliturgical Aquitanian corpus, with reference to formal borrowing and social positioning. Claudia Kru¨lls-Hepermann, Trobador- Liedkunst: Literaturwissenschaft und Musikgeschichte im Kontext, Frankfurt, Lang, 164 pp., is a detailed and insightful study of the relationship between music and words, with reference to the sometimes divergent development of the disciplines of musicology and philology, and with close readings of poems by Arnaut Daniel, Berenguier de Palazol, and others. Marcabru: A Critical Edition, ed. Simon Gaunt et al., Cambridge, Brewer, x + 609 pp., is a complete edition of the poems of Marcabru, with extensive notes, discussions of previous research and editions, and a clear and concise introduction. This is the first complete edition of Marcabru since Dejeanne’s in 1909, and shows every sign of providing a definitive corpus. *Sermons de Saint Marc¸al, s.XII, ed. Roger Teulat, Aurillac, Lo Convise, 1999, 64 pp., is a new edition of the 18 Occitan sermons in MS Paris BN lat 3548B. Pierre Portet, Bertrand Boysset, arpenteur arle´sien de la fin du XIVe sie`cle, 214 Occitan Studies 1355–1415 , is an online version of a the`se de doctorat presented at the Universite´ de Toulouse Le Mirail in 1995, and forms an edition with commentary and detailed study of Boysset’s two treatises on land surveying and measuring boundaries, the Siensa de destrar and the Siensa d’atermenar (both c. 1401–1415). The site is intended to include illustrations from the source MS, Carpentras, Bibliothe`que Inguim- bertine (Bibliothe`que municipale), MS 327. Rieger, Okzitanistik, includes H. I. Radatz on the use of Occ. by Jordi de Sant Jordi (133–45); J. Kabatek on Lo Codi, the Occ. translation of the Justinian Code, and its influence on other vernacular texts (147–63); A. Fausel on orality and Schriftlichkeit in troubadour song from a socio-historical perspective (165–75); M. Bernsen on Guilhem IX’s poetic corpus as discourse (207–16); K. Sta¨dtler and J. Ru¨diger both examine fin’amors poetry as praxis, in terms, respectively, of historical anthropology and linguistic systems (217–30 and 231–47); R. Lug suggests that the troubadour songs included in the Chansonnier de Saint-Germain-des-Pre´s are connected to the Waldensian and Cathar communities in Metz (249–74). De l’Amour, ed. Alain Badiou et al. (Collection Champs, E´ cole de la cause freudienne), Flammarion, 1999, 190 pp., publishes a series of lectures given in 1997–98, concentrating on Lacanian approaches to desire in French literature with courtly lyric poetry as paradigm. It includes: J. Roubaud, ‘L’amour, la poe´sie. Hypothe`ses’ (81–104), which includes discussion of mezura and the general influence of trobar on modern expressions of love; R. Dragonetti, ‘La ‘‘chose’’ du plus grand de´sir dans les chansons du premier troubadour’ (143–76), on Guilhem IX, and the use of myth and fable to describe love, identified as a (partly) Orphic theme of desire for the Other. Sordello da Goito. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Studi (Goito-Mantova, 13–15 novembre 1997), is published in 2 volumes as CN, 60. In vol. i, S. Bortolami explores the political context surrounding Sordello’s notorious abduction of Cunniza da Romano (1–43); C. Greco traces Sordello’s last days (c.1269) as a vassal of Charles I of Anjou (45–58); A. Radaelli suggests that Uc de Saint-Circ’s danseta, PC 457, 41,is part of his cycle of poems about Sordello (59–88); S. Guida finds that the two vidas of Sordello are stylistically typical of others written by Uc de Saint-Circ (89–123); G. Gouiran finds that Sordello copies Bertran de Born, but shows singular concern for the threat posed to ladies’ honour by love (125–40); S. Asperti examines the complex relations between Sordello and his rival patrons, Raimon Berenguer V and Charles I of Anjou, especially in terms of the works of other poets, such as Luchetto Gattilusio. He concludes that Sordello was an esteemed figure around 1260 (141–59); E. Schulze-Busacker presents an assessment of Sordello’s didactic ‘period’ which she identifies as