RESOURCES These are some materials that were influential in my creative process. If you like the album & its context, or just looking for something obscure to read - here's some things you'd probably enjoy! |
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| Akehurst, F.R.P. and Judith
M. Davis, ed, Handbook of the Troubadours, University of California
Press, 1995 overview, several topics covered indepth. particularly nice literary/language related pieces |
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| Bogin, Meg, The Women Troubadours, W.W.
Norton & Co., NY, 1980 feminist look at trobaritz - women in medieval society, Occitania specifically; all women's vidas, works |
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| Cofrin, Al, ed., Medieval Songs and Dances
of 11th-14th Century Europe, vol. 1, Al Cofrin, 1997 music & lyrics of medieval song |
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| Herrin, Judith (ed.), A Medieval Miscellany,
Weidenfeld &Nicolson Facsimile Editions, 1999 beautiful, obscure drawings, paintings; poetry, musings, documents from middle ages |
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| Hopkins, Andrea, The Book of Courtly
Love, Labyrinth Publishing (UK) Ltd, 1994 enumerated list of "rules of love" |
click here to read the 'Rules of Love' | |
| Thiebaux, Marcelle, trans, The Writings
of Medieval Women, Garland Publishing, Inc, NY and London, 1987 Yudkin, Jeremy, Music in Medieval Europe, Prentice Hall, NJ, 1989 |
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| Egan, Margarita, The Vidas of the Troubadours,
Vol. 6 Series B, Garland Library of Medieval Literature, NY, 1984 translation of all vidas |
click here to read some of these VIDAS | |
| Shirley, Janet, trans., The Song of the
Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, Scolar Press,
1996. info about albigensian history - long epic poem about crusade, 2 original contributors |
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| Power, Eileen, Medieval Women, Cambridge
University Press, 1975. small volume re. politics/social standing of women |
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Gaunt, Simon and Sarah Kay (ed.), The Troubadours, An Introduction,
Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
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| Reese, Gustave, Music in the Middle Ages,
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York, 1940. scholarly background from acient cultures (rome, egypt, greece) to early renaissance |
click here to read one of my favorite descriptions of jongleurs | |
| Swabey, Ffiona, Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Courtly Love, and the Troubadours, Greenwood Press, 2004. bio about eleanor & contemporaries, troubadours, courtly love poetry |
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| Sigal, Gale, Erotic Dawn-Songs of the
Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady, University Press of Florida,1996 PN691.S54 1996 |
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| Madden, Thomas F., ed, Crusades: The
Illustrated History, University of Michigan Press, 2004 lively history with lots of pictures, some info about paganistic/albigensian religions |
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Riley-Smith, Johathan,ed, The Oxford History of the Crusades, Oxford University Press,1999, 2002 a somewhat less lively look at similar topicscs |
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