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.
Summary:
"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 origin for French literary history--a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing song"-- Provided by publisher.
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