Preface: How to use this book
Introduction Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay
1. Courtly culture in medieval Occitania Ruth Harvey
2. Fin' amor and the development of the courtly canso Linda Paterson
3. Moral and satirical poetry Catherine Léglu
4. Early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn Stephen G. Nichols
5. The classical period: Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel Gérard Gouiran
6. Later troubadours Michael Routledge
7. The trobairitz Tilde Sankovitch
8. Italian and Catalan troubadours Miriam Cabré
9. Music and versification Margaret Switten
10. Rhetoric and hermeneutics Sarah Spence
11. Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours Maria Luisa Meneghetti
12. The troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque Don Monson
13. Desire and subjectivity Sarah Kay
14. Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem Simon Gaunt
15 The Chansonniers as books William Burgwinkle
16. Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative Sylvia Huot
Appendices
Bibliography.
