Cantigas
A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain
The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Gal...
A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain
The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Gal...