anonymous authors

Lives of Troubadours

A selection of short biographies of Occitan troubadours by anonymous authors of 13. and 14. century



Biographical mediaeval texts about troubadours of Occitania are very old testimony of the common interest for the lives of artists. In times when was customary to write only about lives of saints and important rulers, Occitan poets were the only other group of people consecrated by such effort. Their biographies - vidas and razos - are written in a language most frequently called lenga d'oc, which is now considered as a first European literary language after classical antiquity. A mix of facts and fantasy, vidas and razos, originally written as comments to troubadour poems, are a valuable historical source and an enjoyable reading.

128 str, hardcover, 98 kn

2008

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