This book, first published in 2003, examines the relationship between poetry and music in medieval France.

A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of

In these essays, five noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship

Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubad

An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love