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Darrera modificació: 2011-12-11
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Paterson, Linda, Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania, Farnham, Ashgate Variorum (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS970), 2011, xii + 328 pp.

Resum
The essays made readily accessible in this collection reflect the author's many-sided interests in the troubadours and the society from which they sprang: the historical and cultural place of the women forming the ostensible objects of their desire, veneration, or anxieties; the extent to which French notions of chivalry penetrated the South; the nature and meaning of various elements of court culture; the precocious development of medical science in this region; its complex responses to the Crusades; and the question of Occitan identity. Mostly complementing her major publications (The World of the Troubadours, collaborative editions of the songs of the troubadour Marcabru, of the epic fragment the Canso d'Antioca, and of the medieval Occitan tensos and partimens), they provide either more detailed material than found its way into those works, or developments from them. 'Occitan literature and the Holy Land' anticipates a new project on responses to the Crusades in Occitan and Old French lyrics. -- Linda Paterson is Professor Emerita in the Department of French Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

Contents:
- Introduction
-- Part I Identity:
* I. Was there an Occitan identity in the Middle Ages?
-- Part II Women: Marriage, Property, Love and Sin:
* II. L'épouse et la formation du lien conjugal selon la littérature occitane du XIe au XIIIe s.: mutations d'une institution et condition féminine
* III. Women, property and the rise of Courtly Love
* IV. L'obscénité du clerc: le troubadour Marcabru et la sculpture ecclésiastique as XIIe siècle en Aquitaine et dans l'Espagne du nord
* V. Marcabru et le lignage de Caïn: Bel m'es cant son li frug madur (PC 293.13)
-- Part III Knights and 'Chivalry': Literary Evidence:
* VI. The concept of knighthood in the 12th-century Occitan lyric
* VII. La Chanson de la Croisade albigeoise: mythes chevaleresques et réalités militaires
* VIII. The Occitan squire in the 12th and 13th centuries
* IX. A propos de la datation de Raimon d'Anjou
-- Part IV Court Culture:
* X. Tournaments and knightly sports in 12th- and 13th-century Occitania
* XI. Great court festivals in the South of France and Catalonia in the 12th and 13th centuries
* XII. Paterson (2008), "Les tensons et partimens"
* XIII. Jeux poétiques et communication des valeurs: le tensos et partimens des troubadours
* XIV. Insultes, amour et une trobairitz: la tenso de Raimbaut de Vaqueiras et Albert Malaspina
* XV. Writing the present: Boniface II of Montferrat and Frederick II Hohenstaufen
-- Part V Medicine:
* XVI. Paterson (1987), "La médecine en Occitanie avant ..."
* XVII. Paterson (1988), "Military surgery: knights ..."
* Part VI Troubadours and the Crusades:
* XVIII. Occitan literature and the Holy Land
* XIX. Legal agreements in the Occitan Canso d'Antioca
* XX. Syria, Poitou and the reconquista (or: tales of the undead): who was the Count in Marcabru's Vers del lavador?
- Addenda
Matèries
Història de la cultura
Història de la literatura
Trobadors
Occità
Traduccions
Notes
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).