Foundations and Foundation Myths of the Troubadours

• Pfeffer, Wendy ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Louisville / University of Pennsylvania
• Localización: Magnificat: cultura i literatura medievals, ISSN-e 2386-8295, Nº. 6, 2019, págs. 185-205
• Idioma: inglés
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  • A review of several origin myths relating to the creation of medieval Occitan lyric poetry. We see a preference for a “great man theory” of origins, though the “great man” may be a fictional woman. Medieval and early Renaissance Occitan authors, including Uc de Saint Circ, Guilhem Molinier, and Jean de Nostredame, used differing origin myths to validate literature in a language that was perceived not to carry the prestige of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Latin or fifteen- and sixteenth-century French.