Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

Scholars tasked with navigating the many thousands of studies of Occitan literature that have appeared over the last thirty-five years will rejoice at the arrival of Robert Taylor's new Bibliographic Guide.

Over two thousand recent books and articles on all categories of Occitan literature are treated here with full annotations, dealing with the earliest enigmatic texts to the works of Jordi de Sant Jordi, an Occitano-Catalon poet who died young in 1424.

Each listing--organized into reference works, scholarship on the texts themselves, lyric and non-lyric literary criticism, scholarship on diffusion and influences, and a clear bibliography of the Troubadours (Trobairitz) themselves--offers descriptive comments about the contribution of the source, with occasional remarks on striking or controversial content. Numerous cross-references identify complementary studies and differing opinions. Taylor's painstaking attention to detail and broad knowledge of the field offers a coherent introduction to scholarship of Occitan literary studies that will be a welcome addition to the field.