Introduction
Courtney Joseph Wells

Part I. Re-examining Troubadour Tropes and Themes
1. Reflections on Origins: How Troubadour Poetry Began
William D. Paden

2. Quirky Consumables: Guilhem IX's Metaphors of Joi and Joc
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

3. Two anonymous troubadour texts: Quan vei la flor sobre.l sambuc (BEdT 461.205) and Cant me donet l'anel daurat (BEdT 461.203a)
Linda Paterson

4. Rereading Peire Vidal's Baron, de mon dan covit (BEdT 364.7)
Francesco Carapezza (translated by Courtney Joseph Wells)

5. Restoring Pistoleta
Daniel E. O'Sullivan

6. Vashti and Esther in Occitania: The Value of Place-Based Knowledge and Inclusive Scholarship
Lisa Shugert Bevevino

Part II. Materiality of/within Occitan Texts
7. Napoleon's Troubadours
Elizabeth K. Hebbard

8. Knights, Pawns, and Troubadours: Constructing Troubadour Identity through the Arabic Language of Chess
Mary Franklin-Brown

9. Azure and Tin in the Canso Nuilla res by Giraut de Borneil
Catherine Léglu

10. Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and the Expanding Economy of the Rhone River Delta
Constance H. Berman
Part III. The Legacy of Old Occitan and Troubadour Texts in Later Cultural Contexts
11. Old Occitan Songbooks in Cinquecento Florence
Walter Meliga

12. Un disio di parlare: A Vertical Reading of Canto 26 in Dante's Divina Commedia
Sarah Spence

13. Jujar, to proensalesco: The Mythification of Occitan in the Theater of Dario Fo
Giuseppe Noto (Translated by Courtney Joseph Wells)

14. Jaufre Rudel Hits the Beaches of the Twenty-first Century: From Robertsonian to Lacanian?
Roy Rosenstein

List of Wendy Pfeffer's Publications
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

New interpretations of troubadour texts and lyrics, from their main themes and motifs to their reception and influence.

Edited by Courtney Joseph Wells, Lisa S. Bevevino and Sarah-Grace Heller