minstrel: Seeking stuff on troubadours and Dylan

[Scott Fridenberg]

Mislav Skracic wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>     I am a graduate student writing a MA thesis on poetry meant for
> public performance.  I have just begun collecting materials and am
> looking for essays, books, academic dissertations etc dealing with
> troubadours, trouveres, minnesangers, minstrels, jesters, bards ...
> as well as contemporary singers-songwriters such as Bob Dylan.
> I'm interested in both their poetry and its performance within the
> respective social-cultural contexts.
> 
>     I would also be very grateful if you could recommend me any
> online resource (discussion board, mailing list, newsgroup) dealing
> with the subject.
> 
>     Please cc reply to mislav.skracic at usa.net as well.
> 
>     TIA,
> 
>     Mislav Skracic

Here is a quote from my web page at:  http://www.okom.net/~scottf/

Robert Fitzmorgan
Barony of Northkeep, Ansteorra


A Reasearch Aid for Troubadour Studies

This Page is under construction, but I can give you a few book references.

If you are new to Troubadour studies you must get:

A Handbook of the Troubadours, edited by F.R.P Akehurst and Judith M. Davis.
University of California Press (1995)
ISBN 0-520-07975-2

To quote from the introduction, "This book is intended to be a reference book
and a digest of the material known to every
troubadour specialist."

It is an invaluable reference, with an extensive bibliography. If you are
serious about the troubadours, you need this book.
The paperback edition is very reasonably priced.

A fun, very readable introduction to the troubadours can be found in:

Pilgrims, Heretics and Lovers by Claude Marks, Macmillian Publishing Co., Inc.
New York (1975)

This is a very enjoyable read, though a bit hard to find. You may have to get
this one on Inter-Library Loan.

Lyrics of the Troubadours and Trouveres, An Anthology and a History, by
Frederic Goldin, pub. Peter Smith,
Gloucester, Mass. (1983)

This one is also hard to find, but well worth the effort.

If you wish to learn Old Provencal in order to read the Troubadours in the
original language, the only book I am aware of
is:

An Old Provencal Primer, by Nathaniel B. Smith and Thomas G. Bergin. Garland
Publishing, Inc. New York And
London (1984) ISBN 0-8240-9030-6

William D. Paden was supposed to have published an Introduction to Old Occitan
in 1995, but the latest information I
have is that the release date for this has been pushed back to Summer of 1998.

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