Description: Further DetailsTitle: CantigasCondition: NewSubtitle: Galician-Portuguese Troubadour PoemsISBN-10: 0691179395EAN: 9780691179391ISBN: 9780691179391Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/17/2022Description: A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Galicia, Portugal, and Castile in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In Cantigas, award-winning translator Richard Zenith presents a delightful selection of 124 of these poems in English versions that preserve the musical quality of the originals, which are featured on facing pages. By turns romantic, spiritual, ironic, misogynist, and feminist, these lyrics paint a vibrant picture of their time and place, surprising us with attitudes and behaviors that are both alien and familiar.The book includes the three major kinds of cantigas. While cantigas de amor (love poems in the voice of men) were largely inspired by the troubadour poetry of southern France, cantigas de amigo (love poems voiced by women) derived from a unique native oral tradition in which the narrator pines after her beloved, sings his praises, or mocks him. In turn, cantigas de escárnio are satiric, and sometimes outrageously obscene, lyrics whose targets include aristocrats, corrupt clergy, promiscuous women, and homosexuals.Complete with an illuminating introduction on the history of the cantigas, their poetic characteristics, and the men who composed and performed them, this engaging volume is filled with exuberant and unexpected poems.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmContributor: Richard Zenith (Edited and translated by)Author: Richard ZenithGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in TranslationRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Cantigas
Title: Cantigas
Subtitle: Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems
ISBN-10: 0691179395
EAN: 9780691179391
ISBN: 9780691179391
Release Date: 05/17/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Richard Zenith (Edited and translated by)
Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Book Title: Cantigas : Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Topic: European / Spanish & Portuguese
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 19.8 Oz
Author: Richard Zenith
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Book Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
Format: Hardcover
