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FRENCH AND PROVENÇAL: PROVENÇAL STUDIES

FRENCH AND PROVENÇAL: PROVENÇAL STUDIES PROVEN<;AL STUDIES By S. C. ASTON Fellow and Dean, St Catharine's College, Cambridge In the domain of both medieval and modern studies, pub­ lished work in 1956 has been primarily devoted to articles and reviews, and few major works have come to notice. The tendency observable in recent years to approach the troubadours as individual creative writers rather than as similar members of a stereotyped generic school has happily been maintained; it is indeed time that the conception frequently encountered of the 'dull sameness' of the troubadour lyric poets was finally discarded. The succession of useful studies of the historical and social background has continued, but there is still much work to be done upon the structure and composition of medieval society in the South of France: it is sobering to reflect just how much of the commonly accepted and commonly used historical informa­ tion about the troubadours still derives from the 19th-century scholars and from the Histoire generale de Languedoc-and how much this information needs to be supplemented and corrected by new and original research. In the modern field, activity appears to have decreased a little since the celebration of the centenary of the Felibrige. The most important http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

FRENCH AND PROVENÇAL: PROVENÇAL STUDIES

ASTON, S. C.
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies , Volume 18 (1): 15 – Mar 10, 1957
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PROVEN<;AL STUDIES By S. C. ASTON Fellow and Dean, St Catharine's College, Cambridge In the domain of both medieval and modern studies, pub­ lished work in 1956 has been primarily devoted to articles and reviews, and few major works have come to notice. The tendency observable in recent years to approach the troubadours as individual creative writers rather than as similar members of a stereotyped generic school has happily been maintained; it is indeed time that the conception frequently encountered of the 'dull sameness' of the troubadour lyric poets was finally discarded. The succession of useful studies of the historical and social background has continued, but there is still much work to be done upon the structure and composition of medieval society in the South of France: it is sobering to reflect just how much of the commonly accepted and commonly used historical informa­ tion about the troubadours still derives from the 19th-century scholars and from the Histoire generale de Languedoc-and how much this information needs to be supplemented and corrected by new and original research. In the modern field, activity appears to have decreased a little since the celebration of the centenary of the Felibrige. The most important

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