Stolen song : how the troubadours became French /
This book documents for the first time the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history, the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French, and the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of ori...
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Of birds and madmen : Occitan songs in French songbooks
- Keeping up with the French : Jean Renart's francophile empire in the Roman de la rose
- Birdsong and the edges of the empire : Gerbert de Montreuil's Roman de la violette
- From beak to quill : troubadour lyric in Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour
- The rustic troubadours : Occitanizing lyrics in France.