Simon Gaunt Libri

This groundbreaking work offers a literary analysis of a significant and influential text, marking the first comprehensive examination in English. It delves into the text's themes, narrative techniques, and its impact on literature, providing readers with a deeper understanding of its importance in the literary canon. The book is essential for scholars and enthusiasts seeking to explore the nuances and implications of this pivotal work.

This study analyzes the interplay of ideology and gender in Old French and Occitan literature across five genres, including chansons de geste and courtly romance. Simon Gaunt offers fresh interpretations of both famous and lesser-known texts, using contemporary feminist theory to explore constructions of masculinity and femininity in medieval literature.

This book offers a general introduction to the world of the troubadours. Its sixteen chapters, newly commissioned from leading scholars in Britain, the United States, France, Italy and Spain, trace the development of troubadour song (including music), engage with the main trends in troubadour scholarship, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry in manuscripts and in Northern French romance. A series of appendices offer an invaluable guide to more than fifty troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.

The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective.