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Article: L'Espace lyrique mediterraneen au Moyen Age: Nouvelles approaches.(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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L'Espace lyrique mediterraneen au Moyen Age: Nouvelles approches, ed. Dominique Billy, Francois Clement, and Annie Combes, Interlangues: Litteratures (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2006). 301 pp. ISBN 2-85816-811-3. 18.00 [euro].
This is an interesting volume whose novel, and interdisciplinary, approach will surely introduce any readers, however conversant they are with the medieval lyric, to poets they do not know in societies with which they are not familiar. The editors' introduction stresses this: the focus will be deliberately heterodox, open to the 'trois grandes civilisations, hebraique, chretienne et musulmane' (p. 9) whose vitality shaped ...