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Author Golden, Rachel May, author

Title Mapping medieval identities in Occitanian crusade song / Rachel May Golden
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Identity, space, and song in crusading Occitania -- Occitania, court, and cloister -- Place, Frankishness, and regionality -- Situating the Holy Land: juxtapositions and circular paths -- Near and distant lands in First Crusade songs -- Locality, distance, and troubadour song in the Second Crusade -- Conclusion: singing crusade journeys
Summary "Home to the troubadours and a creative monastic center, twelfth-century Occitania (the south of France) fostered a vibrant musical culture that encompassed both secular and sacred, vernacular and Latin, spanning a wealth of locally cultivated genres. Such musical-poetic impulses reflected and responded to regional practices of courtly love, chivalric ideals, votive worship, monastic theologies, pilgrimage, and Holy War. This book demonstrates the rich cross-fertilizations between early Christian Crusades and two roughly contemporaneous musical-poetic repertories of Occitania: the sacred, Latin Aquitanian versus and the vernacular troubadour lyric. These two repertories are known largely in medieval and musicological studies for reasons apart from the Crusades—for monastic piety and Marian devotion in the case of the versus, and for courtly love and authorial voices in the case of the troubadour repertory. Yet, when considered against unfolding Crusade events, these poetic-musical repertories illuminate shifting Occitanian identities and worldviews as refracted by contemporaneous devotional practices, religious beliefs, and geographies, both physical and metaphoric. The author’s contextual investigations and musical-textual interpretations reveal how Crusade songs distinctively arose out of their southern French environments, at a historical moment when Holy War and new genres of musical composition coincided. Engaging both the outer world and the poet’s subjectivity, Crusade songs shaped regional identities, enacting individual concerns, the communal homeland, religious and military aspirations, and specific historical and geopolitical positions"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on December 7, 2020)
Subject Troubadour songs -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
Crusades -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
Songs, Occitan -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
Songs, Occitan
Troubadour songs
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019047234
ISBN 9780190948641
0190948647
9780190948627
0190948620
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9780190948634