Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137–1336 [Book Review]
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- Jahner, Jennifer
Abstract
From 2011 to 2016, the University of Warwick, the University of La Sapienza in Rome and Royal Holloway, University of London, collaborated on an AHRC-funded project to collect, edit and translate more than two hundred Old French and Occitan crusade lyrics. The present book is one happy outcome of this effort. A companion volume to the richly informative online resource, it contextualises a complex and multifarious corpus, beginning in the 1130s with Marcabru's reflections on the Christian-Almoravid conflicts in Spain, and ending two hundred years later, as Philip VI of France earned the reproach of troubadours Raimon de Cornet and Peire de Lunel for failing to launch a promised Holy Land campaign. Written by the project's principal investigator, Linda Paterson, in...
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© 2019 Oxford University Press. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model). Published: 03 October 2019. Book review of: Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137–1336, by Linda Paterson , in collaboration with Luca Barbieri , Ruth Harvey and Anna Radaelli , and with an appendix by Marjolaine Raguin-Barthelmebs (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2018; pp. 332. £60).Additional details
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