Medieval History
Stanford Assistant Professor Marisa Galvez has written a book about medieval songbooks, pointing to troubadours as the models for modern poets.
The poem can seem like a timeless art form. When we talk about the poetry of nature or dance, we?re referring to a primeval form of language ? it?s as if verse existed before other words even made it on the scene.
But, in reality, the European poem as we know it was invented, and fairly recently, too. What we in the West think of as poetry is largely the result of 12th-century troubadours and their controversial insistence on singing about the profane.
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Medieval History
Stanford scholar finds the origins of Western poetry in troubadours? songs
Stanford Assistant Professor Marisa Galvez has written a book about medieval songbooks, pointing to troubadours as the models for modern poets.
The poem can seem like a timeless art form. When we talk about the poetry of nature or dance, we?re referring to a primeval form of language ? it?s as if verse existed before other words even made it on the scene.
But, in reality, the European poem as we know it was invented, and fairly recently, too. What we in the West think of as poetry is largely the result of 12th-century troubadours and their controversial insistence on singing about the profane.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- Scholar Discovers 16th-century Love Poem Written By An Englishwoman
A previously unknown poem dating from the mid-1500s has been discovered pasted into a rare edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer. The erotic-love poem seems to have been by a Roman Catholic woman and sent to a Protestant scholar who was the tutor to Edward...
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Simon Armitage, trans. The Death of King Arthur. New York: Norton, 2012. Reviewed by Leah Haught ([email protected]) Originally released as a hardcover edition in December 2011, Norton?s December 2012 publication of Simon Armitage?s verse...
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