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The Life and Works of the Troubadour Raimbaut D'Orange /

This scholarly work presents all the can be gleaned from history and literature concerning the twelfth-century Provencal troubadour-prince, Raimbaut dOrange. There is a section on Raimbauts historical background, another providing an analytical study of his poetry, and a third giving the Old Provenc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raimbaud III, comte d'Orange, active 1155-1173
Other Authors: Pattison, Walter T. (Walter Thomas), 1903-1992
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Old French
Published: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [1952]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This scholarly work presents all the can be gleaned from history and literature concerning the twelfth-century Provencal troubadour-prince, Raimbaut dOrange. There is a section on Raimbauts historical background, another providing an analytical study of his poetry, and a third giving the Old Provencal texts of the poems with variants, English translations, and notes. Texts of a apocryphal works, summaries of biographical documents and the text of the Provencal vida are given in appendixes. There are also a glossary and an index of a proper names from the poems. Previous studies of the troubadours have been largely based on the romantic concept of their lives. This study assembles existing factual knowledge and relates it in historical perspective to the troubadours epoch and environment.
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages): facsimiles
ISBN:9781452936710