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The Troubadour Tensos and Partimens: A Critical Edition
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Best known for their lovesongs and invention of Courtly Love, the troubadours were also fascinated by debate. Like their contemporaries throughout the medieval world who sharpened their wit and intellect on scholastic disputations, the troubadours devised their entire, multifaceted lyric production on the basis of many forms of dialogue: intertextual debates, satirical challenges, selfquestioning, minidramas. This debating process is nowhere more in evidence than in the troubadour tensos and partimens. This threevolume critical edition makes available for the first time the massive corpus of 160 tensos and partimens involving real speakers. They supply a mine of new information on the medieval Occitan language, contemporary politics, courtly and judicial mores, and attitudes to gender, class, and ethnic stereotypes, often presenting a picture of courtly life, love and sexual relations very different from that of the betterknown lovelyric. The edition meets the highest standards o
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