by Henri-Irénée Marrou · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020006507
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«Les Troubadours» is the historical essay by Henri-Irénée Marrou, published by Seuil in 1971, in French.
Marrou questions the cliché of the wandering troubadour who entertains in castles and traces the true history of the poet-musicians of Occitania; he situates this art in the twelfth-century renaissance and explains how, in the langue d'oc, the troubadours invented courtly love, an almost mystical ideal that elevates human love to the rank of a cult.
The first edition dates from 1961; this French-language edition, 187 pages, appeared in 1971. Marrou (1904-1977) was a historian of late antiquity and a music critic under the pseudonym Henri Davenson.
Recommended for those interested in medieval history, Occitan literature and the evolution of the love lyric.
