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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
ed. Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey, and Linda Paterson, with John Marshall as philological adviser, and with the assistance of Melanie Florence (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), xi + 609 pp. ISBN 0-85991-574-3. 95.00 [pounds sterling].
The number of scholars involved in this edition of the most difficult and abstruse of the Occitan troubadours is a mark of the nature of the task involved. The names of this British team are well known through their work in general and, in particular, for the spin-offs published separately or, occasionally, in collaboration.
To say that the edition is welcome is, therefore, to be assumed. Dejeanne's edition, published after his death, in 1909, was the only means of studying this troubadour, whose predilection for trobar clus renders him at times impenetrable, even now....
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