Courtney Joseph Wells & Lisa Shugert Bevevino 
Troubadour Texts and Contexts [EPUB ebook] 
Essays in Honor of Wendy Pfeffer

Introduction
Courtney Joseph Wells
Part I. Re-examining Troubadour Tropes and Themes
1. Reflections on Origins: How Troubadour Poetry Began
William D. Paden
2. Quirky Consumables: Guilhem IX’s Metaphors of
Joi and
Joc
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
3. Two anonymous troubadour texts:
Quan vei la flor sobre.l sambuc
(BEd T 461.205) and
Cant me donet l’anel daurat
(BEd T 461.203a)
Linda Paterson
4. Rereading Peire Vidal’s
Baron, de mon dan covit (
BEd T 364.7)
Francesco Carapezza (translated by Courtney Joseph Wells)
5. Restoring Pistoleta
Daniel E. O’Sullivan
6. Vashti and Esther in Occitania: The Value of Place-Based Knowledge and Inclusive Scholarship
Lisa Shugert Bevevino
Part II.
Materiality of/within Occitan Texts
7. Napoleon’s Troubadours
Elizabeth K. Hebbard
8. Knights, Pawns, and Troubadours: Constructing Troubadour Identity through the Arabic Language of Chess
Mary Franklin-Brown
9. Azure and Tin in the
Canso
Nuilla res by Giraut de Borneil
Catherine Léglu
10. Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and the Expanding Economy of the Rhone River Delta
Constance H. Berman
Part III. The Legacy of Old Occitan and Troubadour Texts in Later Cultural Contexts
11. Old Occitan Songbooks in
Cinquecento Florence
Walter Meliga
12.
Un disio di parlare: A Vertical Reading of Canto 26 in Dante’s
Divina Commedia
Sarah Spence

13.
Jujar, to proensalesco: The Mythification of Occitan in the Theater of Dario Fo
Giuseppe Noto (Translated by Courtney Joseph Wells)
14. Jaufre Rudel Hits the Beaches of the Twenty-first Century: From Robertsonian to Lacanian?
Roy Rosenstein
List of Wendy Pfeffer’s Publications
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria