ENGLISH 4520.01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Castelloza, Bernart De Ventadorn, Comtessa De Dia
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*if we teach, many of our students will only get our version of beowulf. Make a case for why the typical interpretation of women as useless or meaningless is wrong. The main question that is worth asking is not is it true? but what does it mean? what matters greatly is what people believe happened in history. : using the past to shape a certain view of the present. The conventions of fin amor: occitania, area of southern france, troubadours. Inventers of courtly love: fin amor, adulterous, all-consuming, debilitating, emasculating, infantilizing. Inspiring: andreas capellanus, art of courtly love. Important book about the rules in courtly love. The making of troubadour celebrities: two types of songs, vida: account of a troubadour"s life, razo: account of a song"s composition. Vida of gaucelm faidit: son of a burgher, sang worse than anyone in the world, lost belongings in a game of dice, married a prostitute.