Includes bibliographical references and index &DIV&&P&Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these...
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Includes bibliographical references and index &DIV&&P&Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received-a collaboration of artists, performers, live audiences, and readers stretching across languages and societies. &BR&&BR&The only comparative study of its kind,&I& Songbook&/I& treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category "poetry": that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thi
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Medieval Songbook as Emergent Genre; Chapter One. Paradigms: The Carmina Burana and the Libro de buen amor; Chapter Two. Producing Opaque Coherence: Lyric Presenceand Names; Chapter Three. Shifting Mediality: Visualizing Lyric Texts; Chapter Four. Cancioneros and the Art of the Songbook; Conclusion. Songbook Medievalisms; Notes; Bibliography; Index