Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

Introduction 
F. R P. Akehurst

1. An Overview: Why the Troubadours? 
Paul Zumthor

The Essentials
2. The Lyric Texts 
Amelia E. Van Weck

3. Fin'amor 
Moshe Lazar

4. Versification
Frank M. Chambers

5. Music 
Hendrik van der Werf

Accessory Texts

6. The Non-lyric Texts
Suzanne fleischman

7. The Vidas and Razos 
Elizabeth W Poe

A Subgroup: The Women Troubadours

8. The Trobairitz 
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

Origins and Diffusion

g. Origins 
Gerald A. Bond

10. Northern France
Deborah H. Nelson

11. The Minnesingers 
Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden

12. The Iberian Peninsula 
Joseph T. Snow

13. Italy 
Ronald Martinez

14. Italian Troubadours 
Hans-Erich Kel1£r

General and Technical Considerations

15. Manuscripts 
William D. Paden

16. Translation 
Roy S. Rosenstein

17. Language 
Frede Jensen

18. Rhetoric 
Nathaniel B. Smith

19. Topoi 
Elisabeth Schulze-Busacker

20. Imagery and Vocabulary 
Eliza Miruna Ghil

21. Bibliography 
Robert Taylor

Appendix: Editions of the Troubadours and Related Works 
F. R P. Akehurst and Robert Taylor

CONTRIBUTORS 
INDEX

About the Author

F.R.P. Akehurst is Professor of French at the University of Minnesota. He is the translator of The Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Philippe de Beaumanoir (1992). Judith M. Davis is Professor of French and Humanities at Goshen College.