A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature Robert A. Taylor RESEARCH IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature Medieval Institute Publications is a program of The Medieval Institute, College of Arts and Sciences Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature Robert A. Taylor MEDIEVAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS Western Michigan University Kalamazoo Copyright © 2015 by the Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Taylor, Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1937- Bibliographical guide to the study of the troubadours and old Occitan literature / Robert A. Taylor. pages cm Includes index. Summary: "This volume provides offers an annotated listing of over two thousand recent books and articles that treat all categories of Occitan literature from the earli- est enigmatic texts to the works of Jordi de Sant Jordi, an Occitano-Catalan poet who died young in 1424. The works chosen for inclusion are intended to provide a rational introduction to the many thousands of studies that have appeared over the last thirty-five years. The listings provide descriptive comments about each contri- bution, with occasional remarks on striking or controversial content and numerous cross-references to identify complementary studies or differing opinions" -- Pro- vided by publisher. ISBN 978-1-58044-207-7 (Paperback : alk. paper) 1. Provençal literature--Bibliography. 2. Occitan literature--Bibliography. 3. Troubadours--Bibliography. 4. Civilization, Medieval, in literature--Bibliography. I. Title. II. Title: Troubadours and old Occitan literature. Z7033.P8T39 2015 [PC3301] 016.849'1040902--dc23 2015004437 ISBN 978-1-58044-215-2 (clothbound : alk. paper) eISBN 9781580442084 44 III. Literary Criticism (Lyric) 1:327–47. [Study of poets known only by name, many of whom may have composed in non-lyric genres; of the seventy-eight phantoms among the 460 names in PC (17 percent), forty remain unidentified, and five more must be added to PC, giving forty-five phantoms in all, including Eble II de Ventadorn, Caudairenga, and the two Ermengaut brothers.] 280. See 754, Rosenstein, “Ubi sunt?” 2005. [New information about Alis, mentioned in poems by Guiraudo lo Ros, Sarrazina, the wife of Hugh VII of Lusignan, and Gaudairenca, wife of Raimon de Miraval and trobairitz with no extant poems.] III. Literary Criticism (Lyric) 9. Orientation 9.1. Guides to the Field 281. Akehurst, F. R. P., and Judith M. Davis. A Handbook of the Troubadours. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. [A basic introduction to the discipline; twenty- one chapters give an overview of the whole field, with an emphasis on informative coverage of a practical nature; provides guidance on a number of topics missing from 282, Troubadours, 1999, such as origins, language, vocabulary, imagery, non-lyric texts, and Minnesingers.] 282. Gaunt, Simon, and Sarah Kay. The Troubadours: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 1999. [A guide to research in the field; sixteen chapters repre- sent distinct research areas and recent developments in critical methodology, some of which are not covered specifically in 281, Handbook, 1995, such as satire, parody, intertextuality, subjectivity, and orality.] 283. Bolduc, Michelle. “Occitan Studies.” In Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms, Meth- ods, Trends. Edited by Albrecht Classen. 3 vols. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010, pp. 1023– 38. [Succinct introduction to the history of Occitan scholarship, with indications of recent trends and future possibilities; covers language, lyric literature as well as narra- tive, epic, hagiographical and didactic works, and a discussion of the various critical methodologies that have been used to explore them; specific attention is given to the study of lyric genres, themes, metrics, and musicological analysis; a final section is devoted to key works and recent trends in Occitan scholarship.] 284. Europe. Revue littéraire mensuelle 86, nos. 950–51 (2008): 3–149. Special number: Les Troubadours. [Nonspecialist guide to the field; rudimentary anthology of twelve poems, two in Occitan with French translation, ten in translation only; nine articles: introductory guides to chansonniers, versification, music, genres canso( , sirventes, tenso), and influence (Galicia, Catalonia, Italy), each by an authority in the field.] 9. Orientation 45 285. Pintarič, Miha. Trubadurji. Ljubljana: Znanstveni institut Filozofske fakultete, 2001. [In Slovenian; half-page summary in English, p. 244; good widespread introduction to the field for beginners; social background; origins; nature offin’amor ; troubadour poetics; interpretations of the ethical, philosophical, aesthetic, psychological, erotic, and humorous qualities of the poetry; brief survey of a dozen of the major trouba- dours; no texts, no language study; good bibliography.] 286. Occitan Poetry. Special issue of Glossator 4 (2011). Online at http://www.doaj.org. [A collection of ten articles chosen to show the vitality and variety of ongoing modern scholarship in troubadour studies; from a meticulously detailed philological investi- gation to a provocative tongue-in-cheek study by PowerPoint presentation of illumi- nated initials, by way of original studies of individual texts and poets, by established and beginning scholars, the volume demonstrates that the field of Occitan studies is alive and well and is an exciting place to be.] 9.2. Sociohistory [General cultural history, courts and patronage, politics and poetry] 9.2.1 General Studies 287. Akehurst, F. R. P. The “Costuma d’Agen”: A Thirteenth-Century Customary Compila- tion in Old Occitan Transcribed from the “Livre Juratoire.” Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. [A collection of customary laws from the Agenais region; edition with facing-page English translation; the introduction gives information on thirteenth-century soci- ety: economic concerns, social relations among classes and within families, and law enforcement; legal vocabulary used by the troubadours; index, several appendices, including a detailed description of the Livre juratoire by Alison Stones.] 288. Dupuy, André. Historique de l’Occitanie. Montpellier: Alain Nouvel, 1976. [General survey of Occitan history from prehistory to the present.] 289. Hancke, Gwendoline. Femmes en Languedoc: la vie quotidienne des femmes de la noblesse occitane au XIIIe siècle, entre catholicisme et catharisme. Cahors: La Louve, 2006. [Detailed analysis of the life of noble women in the convent or at home, touch- ing on everything that affected their daily concerns, their conception of love, or their attitudes to death or maternity; see also Hancke’s L’Hérésie en héritage, Cahors: La Louve, 2006, in which she retraces the destinies of several noble families to clarify the role of women in the success of the heresy, as protectors of the heretics and even as members of the Cathar clergy.] 290. Harvey, Ruth. “Courtly Culture in Medieval Occitania.” In 282, Troubadours, 1999, pp. 8–27. [Detailed exploration of court life and social structures at the time 46 III. Literary Criticism (Lyric) of the troubadours, giving lively insight into the lives of the poets and jongleurs who circulated about the lord and sought their own competitive advantage through song, flattery, and administrative skills.] 291. Lafont, Robert. Petita istòria europèa d’Occitania. Perpignan: Trabucaire, 2003. [A comprehensive patriotic outline of the history, geography, and sociolinguistic char- acter of Occitania; indicates the importance of the Visigoths in the formation of a Romanized culture distinct from that of northern France which was influenced more by the Franks; outlines the seven regional standards of the modern Occitan language.] 292. Marks, C. Pilgrims, Heretics and Lovers: A Medieval Journey. New York: Macmillan, 1975. [A lively presentation of Occitan culture from the sixth century to the end of the sixteenth; poems of eight major troubadours are set into their sociohistoric con- text to bring out the strongly humanistic values of the civilization; solid documenta- tion of history and literature.] 293. Meliga, Walter. “L’Aquitaine des premiers troubadours. Géographie et histoire des origins troubadouresques.” In L’Aquitaine des littératures médiévales (XIe–XIIIe siècle). Edited by Jean-Yves Casanova and Valérie Fasseur. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris- Sorbonne, 2011. [Historical exploration of the cultural and political interconnec- tions among the Aquitanian courts of the first half of the twelfth century; Poitou was at the center, with influence that spread to the north and south, supporting a group of the earliest troubadours, who knew each other and exchanged songs: Guilhem de Peitieus, Jaufre Rudel, Cercamon, Marcabru, and others, forming the “Poitevin School” at the origins of Occitan lyric.] 294. Paterson, Linda M. The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c. 1100–c. 1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reprint, 1998. Spanish trans- lation by José Manuel Alvarez Flores, Barcelona: Peninsula, 1997. French translation by Gérard Gouiran et al., Montpellier: Presses du Languedoc, 1999. [Overview of various aspects of medieval Occitan society as background to the troubadours; the poetry itself is examined mainly for its corroborative insights into social structures and practices; specialized