Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French

This book documents for the first time the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French, and the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history--a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing song--

• | Author: Eliza Zingesser
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: March 15, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501747576
• | ISBN-13: 9781501747571