Description: "Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from powerful nobles to penniless minstrels."--
Brief description: Linda M. Paterson is professor emerita at the University of Warwick. Her books include Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336.
Review Quotes: "Built on a selection of pivotal authors encompassing the 'golden' twelfth century, this up-to-date synthesis by one of the most distinguished scholars of troubadour poetry skillfully combines social and historical, literary and musical aspects of a lyric production that shaped the notion of courtliness and the idea of love embedded in Western culture for many centuries to come."--Francesco Carapezza, University of Palermo