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ISBN-10 : 0197547809
ISBN-13 : 9780197547809
Author : Jennifer Saltzstein
Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France offers a new perspective on how medieval song expressed relationships between people and their environments. Informed by environmental history and harnessing musicological and ecocritical approaches, author Jennifer Saltzstein draws connections between the nature imagery that pervades songs written by the trouvères of northern France to the physical terrain and climate of the lands on which their authors lived. In doing so, she analyzes the different ways in which composers’ lived environments related to their songs and categorizes their use of nature imagery as realistic, aspirational, or nostalgic. Demonstrating a cycle of mutual impact between nature and culture, Saltzstein argues that trouvère songs influenced the ways particular groups of medieval people defined their identities, encouraging them to view themselves as belonging to specific landscapes.The book offers close readings of love songs, pastourelles, motets, and rondets from the likes of Gace Brulé, Adam de la Halle, Guillaume de Machaut, and many others. Saltzstein shows how their music-text relationships illuminate the ways in which song helped to foster identities tied to specific landscapes among the knightly classes, the clergy, aristocratic women, and peasants. By connecting social types to topographies, trouvère songs and the manuscripts in which they were preserved presented models of identity for later generations of songwriters, performers, listeners, patrons, and readers to emulate, thereby projecting into the future specific ways of being on the land. Written in the long thirteenth century during the last major era of climate change, trouvère songs, as Saltzstein demonstrates, shape our understanding of how identity formation has rested on relationships between nature, culture, and change.
Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History 1st Table of contents:
Part I. Lands and Identities
1. The Lay of the Land
Medieval Environments: Climate and Human Flourishing
Northern French Cities and their Rural Surroundings
Rural Topographies: Forests, Fields, Meadows, Parks, and Gardens
2. Trouvère Identities: Rank, Status, and Geography
Knightly Trouvère Biographies: Lives and Careers
Clerkly Trouvère Biographies: Lives and Careers
Group Identities, Knightly and Clerical
Representing Individual and Group Identities in Medieval Songbooks: Knights, Clerics, and Performers
Songbooks and Songbook Patronage as Projections of Noble Identity
Songbook Portraits and Authorial Persons: Author Portraits as Seals
Part II. Song and Spring in Town and Country
3. In the Meadows: Feeling the Landscape through the Songs of Knightly Trouvères
Landscape and Knightly Identity in the Songs of Gace Brulé
Autobiography, Variability, and Authorial Persons: Approaching Trouvère Song in Manuscripts
Feeling the Landscape in the Songs of Gace Brulé
Generating Feeling: Landscape and Melodic Form in the Songs of Knightly Trouvères
4. In the City: Landscape, Season, and Plant-Life in the Works of Cleric-Trouvères
Rejecting the Nature Opening in Clerical Song: Adam de la Halle, Moniot d’Arras, Richard de Fournival
The Nature Opening and Chaillou de Pesstain’s Additions to the Roman de Fauvel (fr.146)
Landscapes and Plant-Life in the Songs of Simon d’Authie and Gilles le Vinier
The Nature Opening and the Motet: Trees of Virtue and Trees of Vice
Part III. In the Pasture and the Garden
5. Rural Landscapes and the Pastourelle: Boundaries, Spatial and Social
Space, Place, and Identity in Pastourelle Narratives
Boundaries Transgressed: Topographies of Rape in the Pastourelle
Urban Composers and Rural Life: Pastourelle Landscapes of Arras
6. The Song-Space of the Medieval Garden: Performance and Privacy in the Rondet
The Medieval Rondet: Aspects of Genre, Register, and Transmission
Re-placing the Rondet: “Bele Aeliz” and “C’est la jus” on the Landscape of the Estate
Ornamental Landscapes: Experiencing Space, Place, and Movement through the Rondet
The Promise of Privacy: Watching, Being Watched, and Overhearing in the Rondet
Conclusions: Nature, Culture, and Change in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Continuities Amid Change in Machaut’s Remede de Fortune
Culture, Identity, Climate, and Change, Medieval and Modern
Acknowledgments
Appendix: “Au renouveau” by Gace Brulé
Manuscript and Print Sources
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