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Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours

Author : Fredric L. Cheyette
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722557
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours written by Fredric L. Cheyette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its environs were ruled by a remarkable woman, Ermengard, who negotiated her city's way through a maze of everchanging dynastic alliances.Fredric L. Cheyette's masterful and beautifully illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treaties, settling disputes among the lords of her lands, and camping with her armies before the walls of besieged cities. She was born into a world of politics and warfare, but from the Mediterranean to the North Sea her name echoed in songs that treated the arts of love.The land between the Rhone and the Pyrenees was a delicately balanced world in which honor, dispute, and the fragile communities of loyalty and family held a "stateless" society together. In Cheyette's prose there rises before us a world we had not imagined, in which women were powerful lords, moving back and forth across what we now call Spain, France, and Italy to play the harsh political games essential to the preservation of their realms. But the region was also fertile ground for religious practices deemed heretical by the Church. The attempt to eradicate them would spawn the Albigensian Crusade, which destroyed the cosmopolitan world of Ermengard and the troubadours—the world that lives again in this book.

Medieval Narbonne

Author : Jacqueline Caille
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Narbonne written by Jacqueline Caille and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the development and history of Narbonne, from its Roman origins to its decline in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the period from the mid-11th to the mid-14th centuries and the rule of viscountess Ermengarde in the era of the troubadours. The articles cover the physical growth of the great medieval centre, the relations and conflicts between its secular and ecclesiastical lords, its administrative and religious life, and its political and commercial connections with surrounding areas.

Medieval Narbonne

Author : Jacqueline Caille
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138375475
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Narbonne written by Jacqueline Caille and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a series of studies by Jacqueline Caille, acknowledged as the leading expert on medieval Narbonne, which chart the development and history of the city from its Roman origins to its decline in the late Middle Ages. They focus on the period of Narbonne's heyday, from the mid-11th to the mid-14th centuries, and a central place is held by Ermengarde, viscountess for half the 12th century, and celebrated figure in the 'world of the troubadours'. The book opens with an important new introductory survey, in English, setting the context for the detailed studies which follow, several of which also appear in English for the first time, and all being updated with additional notes. These articles cover the physical growth of the great medieval centre, the relations and conflicts between its secular and ecclesiastical lords, its administrative and religious life, and its political and commercial connections with the areas around. Ce volume regroupe une série d'études de Jacqueline Caille, spécialiste reconnue de l'histoire de Narbonne au Moyen Age. L'antique cité y est présentée depuis ses origines romaines jusqu'Ã la fin du XVe siècle, en insistant particulièrement sur la période la plus brillante des siècles médiévaux, du milieu du XIe au milieu du XIVe siècle. Le recueil s'ouvre par un "long survol historique" inédit, en anglais, brossant le contexte général oÃ1 s'insèrent les études spécialisées qui suivent, réactualisées par des notes additionnelles. Les principaux thèmes pouvant Ãatre dégagés des ces articles concernent le développement topographique de cette "grande ville médiévale", les relations et les conflits entre les seigneurs qui la dirigent (archevÃaques et vicomtes), la vie administrative et religieuse de l'agglomération ainsi que ses relations politiques et commerciales avec les régions environnantes. Enfin, une place de choix est faite Ã l'une des éminentes figures du "monde des troubadours", la victomtesse

The World of the Troubadours

Author : Linda M. Paterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558327
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Troubadours written by Linda M. Paterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occitania, known today as the "south of France," had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created "courtly love" and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries. There are many books on the troubadours, but this is the first comprehensive study of the society in which they lived. For readers of literature it offers a wide-ranging insight into the realities that lay behind the poetic mystique. For historians it opens up an important and neglected area of medieval Europe.

Medieval Narbonne

Author : Jacqueline Caille
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000945189
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Narbonne written by Jacqueline Caille and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a series of studies by Jacqueline Caille, acknowledged as the leading expert on medieval Narbonne, which chart the development and history of the city from its Roman origins to its decline in the late Middle Ages. They focus on the period of Narbonne's heyday, from the mid-11th to the mid-14th centuries, and a central place is held by Ermengarde, viscountess for half the 12th century, and celebrated figure in the 'world of the troubadours'. The book opens with an important new introductory survey, in English, setting the context for the detailed studies which follow, several of which also appear in English for the first time, and all being updated with additional notes. These articles cover the physical growth of the great medieval centre, the relations and conflicts between its secular and ecclesiastical lords, its administrative and religious life, and its political and commercial connections with the areas around. Ce volume regroupe une série d'études de Jacqueline Caille, spécialiste reconnue de l'histoire de Narbonne au Moyen Age. L'antique cité y est présentée depuis ses origines romaines jusqu'à la fin du XVe siècle, en insistant particulièrement sur la période la plus brillante des siècles médiévaux, du milieu du XIe au milieu du XIVe siècle. Le recueil s'ouvre par un "long survol historique" inédit, en anglais, brossant le contexte général où s'insèrent les études spécialisées qui suivent, réactualisées par des notes additionnelles. Les principaux thèmes pouvant être dégagés des ces articles concernent le développement topographique de cette "grande ville médiévale", les relations et les conflits entre les seigneurs qui la dirigent (archevêques et vicomtes), la vie administrative et religieuse de l'agglomération ainsi que ses relations politiques et commerciales avec les régions environnantes. Enfin, une place de choix est faite à l'une des éminentes figures du "monde des troubadours", la victomtesse

Constance of France

Author : Myra Miranda Bom
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031104293
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Constance of France written by Myra Miranda Bom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters, seal imprints and letters. The countess’s long and interesting life makes for women’s history with a large geographical scope, including France, England, Toulouse and the Latin East. It touches on many aspects of life during the Middle Ages such as birth, marriage and divorce, gender roles, experience of time, and expectation for the afterlife. Bom demonstrates how and to what extent medieval women could, and did, take control of their own lives. This book is an account of the interplay of historical context and agency.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Author : Ralph V. Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300159897
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor of Aquitaine written by Ralph V. Turner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throne—Richard the Lionheart and John. Renowned for her beauty, hungry for power, headstrong, and unconventional, Eleanor traveled on crusades, acted as regent for Henry II and later for Richard, incited rebellion, endured a fifteen-year imprisonment, and as an elderly widow still wielded political power with energy and enthusiasm. This gripping biography is the definitive account of the most important queen of the Middle Ages. Ralph Turner, a leading historian of the twelfth century, strips away the myths that have accumulated around Eleanor—the “black legend” of her sexual appetite, for example—and challenges the accounts that relegate her to the shadows of the kings she married and bore. Turner focuses on a wealth of primary sources, including a collection of Eleanor’s own documents not previously accessible to scholars, and portrays a woman who sought control of her own destiny in the face of forceful resistance. A queen of unparalleled appeal, Eleanor of Aquitaine retains her power to fascinate even 800 years after her death.

Unpredictability and Presence

Author : Hans Jacob Orning
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047443284
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Unpredictability and Presence written by Hans Jacob Orning and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies a legal anthropological framework to high medieval Norwegian history. It formulates the question of state formation in a new and challenging way by showing how the king a substantial degree based his dominion on unpredictability and presence.

Women Telling Nations

Author : Amelia Sanz
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401211124
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Women Telling Nations written by Amelia Sanz and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, which presents twenty countries, is divided into four parts. First, we examine how women belonged to nations: they represented territories and political or religious communities in their own style. Second, we deal with the ways in which women wrote the nation: the network of relationships in which they were involved that were not necessarily national or territorial. The legitimation that women writers succeeded in finding is emphasised in the third section, while in the fourth we analyse how and why women were open to the outside world, beyond the country’s borders. Women Telling Nations underlines the quantitative importance of the circulation of these women’s writings and demonstrates the extent as well as the impact of the international cross-fertilisation of nations, especially by and for women: focusing on routes rather than roots.

Mother and Sons, Inc.

Author : Kathryn Reyerson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249615
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Mother and Sons, Inc. written by Kathryn Reyerson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons. Mothers and Sons, Inc. shows how the widow Martha maneuvered within the legal constraints of her social, economic, and personal status and illuminates the opportunities and the limits of what was possible for elite mercantile women.

An Orkney Tapestry

Author : George MacKay Brown
Publisher : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 1788852354
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book An Orkney Tapestry written by George MacKay Brown and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk tale, short story, drama, and environmental writing. The book, written at an early stage in the author’s career, explores themes that appear in his later work and was a landmark in Brown’s development as a writer. Above all, it is a celebration of Orkney's people, language and history. This edition reproduces Sylvia Wishart’s beautiful illustrations, commissioned for the original hardback. Made available again for the first time in over 40 years, this new edition sits alongside Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain as an important precursor of environmental writing by the likes of Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Malachy Tallack and, most recently, Amy Liptrot.

The Making of Romantic Love

Author : William M. Reddy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226706265
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Romantic Love written by William M. Reddy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent - or innocent enough. Reddy strikes out from this historical moment on an exploration of love, contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal.

The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe

Author : Robert F. Berkhofer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754651062
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe written by Robert F. Berkhofer and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the experience of power in medieval Europe. The seventeen essays range geographically from England in the north to Castile in the south, and chronologically from the 10th century to the 14th, and address a series of specific topics in institutional, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. Taken together, they present three distinct ways of discussing power in a medieval historical context: uses of power, relations of power, and discourses of power.

Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004517030
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.

The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine

Author : Marcus Graham Bull
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831143
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine written by Marcus Graham Bull and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist approach to Eleanor of Aquitaine and the political, social, cultural and religious world in which she lived. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The essays in this collection use her as a point of entry into wider-ranging discussions of the literary, social, political and religious milieux into which she was born, and to which she contributed; they address many of the misconceptions that have grown around both Eleanor herself and the medieval Midi in general, and open up new areas of debate. Topics explored include the work of the troubadours and the importance to them of patronage; perceptions of southern France and itsinhabitants by outsiders; the early history of the Templars in southern France; cultural contacts between the Midi and other parts of the Latin world; the uses of ritual and historical myth in the expression of political power; and attitudes towards women. Contributors: Catherine Léglu, Marcus Bull, Richard W. Barber, Daniel F. Callahan, Malcolm Barber, John B. Gillingham, Linda Paterson, Ruth Harvey, Daniel Power, Laurent Macé, William Paden.

Astray

Author : Eluned Summers-Bremner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789147352
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Astray written by Eluned Summers-Bremner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human—it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning—a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the movements of today’s refugees, and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is how creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging and at notions of alienation and hope.

The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213)

Author : E. Jenkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113707826X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162–1213) written by E. Jenkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success.