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Professor Linda Paterson: further publications

Edited books

Chrétien de Troyes and the Troubadours: Essays in Memory of the late L. Topsfield, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1984, 282 pp., edited jointly with P. Noble.

The Troubadours and the Epic: Essays in Memory of W.M. Hackett, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick, 1987, xi + 269 pp., edited jointly with Simon Gaunt.

Articles and book chapters

'Knights and the concept of knighthood in the XIIth-century Occitan epic', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 17 (1981), 115-30 (part of a special issue of this journal on knighthood in medieval Europe). This issue of FMLS was published in hardback by Boydell/Brewer Press in 1982.

'Great court festivals in the South of France and Catalonia in the XIIth and XIIIth centuries', Medium Aevum, 51 (1982), 213-24.

'The concept of knighthood in the XIIth-century Occitan lyric', in Chrétien de Troyes and the Troubadours: Essays in Memory of the late L.Topsfield, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1984, 282 pp., ed. P. Noble and L. Paterson, pp.112-32.

'The Occitan squire in the XIIth and XIIIth centuries', in The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, ed. C. Harper-Bill and R. Harvey, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 1986, pp.133-51.

'Tournaments and knightly sports in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitania', Medium Aevum, 55 (1986), 72-84.

'A propos de la datation de Raimon d'Anjou', Revue des Langues Romanes, 91 (1987), 307-19.

'La médecine en Occitanie avant 1250', Actes du Premier Congrès International de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, ed. P.T. Ricketts, Westfield College, London, 1987, pp.383-99.

'Military surgery: knights, sergeants, and Raimon of Avignon's version of the Chirurgia of Roger of Salerno (1180-1209)', in The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood II, Papers from the 3rd Strawberry Hill Conference, ed. C. Harper-Bill and R. Harvey, Woodbridge, 1988, pp. 117-46.

'La Chanson de la Croisade albigeoise: mythes chevaleresques et réalités militaires', Actes du colloque 'La Croisade: réalités et fictions', University of Picardy, Amiens, March 1987 [1989], pp.193-203.

'L'enfant dans la littérature occitane avant 1230', Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 32 (1989), 233-45.

'L'épouse et la formation du lien conjugal selon la littérature occitane du XIe au XIIIe siècle: mutations d'une institution et condition féminine', Mélanges de langue et de littérature occitanes en hommage à Pierre Bec, Poitiers, 1991.

'Sources féminines et 'sentiment de l'enfance' dans certains textes médicaux et didactiques du XIIe au XIVe siècle', in Histoire et littérature au moyen âge: Actes du Colloque du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales de l'Université de Picardie (Amiens 20-24 mars 1985), ed. D.Buschinger, Göppingen, 1991, pp.381-88.

'Les "féodalités" occitanes et les troubadours: propriété et vasselage dans les chansons de geste occitanes jusqu'à la croisade albigeoise', in Contacts de langues, de civilisations et intertextualité: Actes du IIIème Congrès International de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, Montpellier, 20-26 septembre 1990, ed. G. Gouiran, 3 vols., Montpellier, 1992, pp. 15-32.

'Stéréotypes géographiques et ethniques en Occitanie aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles', Atti del Secondo Congresso Internazionale della ‘Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes’, Turin, 31 August - 5 September 1987, 2 vols, Dipartimento di Scienze Letterarie e Filologiche, Università di Torino, 1993, pp.269-82.

'L'édition de Marcabru: D'aisso lau Dieu (PC 293, 16), Actes du IV Congrès International de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1994, pp.263-74

'Marcabru's rhetoric and the dialectics of trobar: "Ans que.l terminis verdei" (PC 293.7) and Jaufre Rudel', in K.Busby and N.Lacy (eds.), Conjunctures: Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1994, pp. 407-23

'L'obscénité du clerc: le troubadour Marcabru et la sculpture ecclésiastique au XIIe siècle en Aquitaine et dans l'Espagne du nord', in Le clerc au moyen âge, Aix-en-Provence, 1995, pp. 471-87.

'Marcabru et le lignage de Caïn', Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 41 (1998), 241-55.

'Fin'amor and the development of the courtly canso', in The Troubadours: an Introduction, ed. S. Gaunt and S. Kay, CUP, 1999, pp. 28-46.

'Les troubadours et l'amour', in Mot so razo, 1 (1999), 62-68.

'Syria, Poitou and the Reconquista (or: Tales of the Undead): Who was the Count in Marcabru's Vers del lavador?', in The Second Crusade, ed. J. Phillips and M. Hoch, Manchester UP, 2001, pp.133-49.

‘Gender Negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages: the literary evidence’, in The Medieval World, ed. P. Linehan and J. Nelson, Routledge, 2001, pp.246-66; paperback edition 2002.

'The South', in France in the Central Middle Ages 900–1200, ed. M. Bull, OUP, 2002, pp. 102–33.

'Women, property, and the rise of Courtly Love', in The Court Reconvenes, International Courtly Literature Society 1998, ed. B. K. Altmann and C. W. Carroll (D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, 2003), pp.41-55.

‘L’édition des poèmes dialogués’, in Scène, évolution, sort de la langue et de la littérature d’oc. Actes du Septième Congrès International de l’Association Internationale d’Etudes Occitanes, Reggio Calabria – Messina, 7–13 juillet 2002, ed. R. Castano, S. Guida and F. Latella, 2 vols (Rome, 2003), pp. 593–608

‘Occitan literature and the Holy Land’, in The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries, ed. M. Bull and C. Léglu (Woodbridge, 2005), pp. 83–99, Italian version ‘La letteratura occitanica e la Terra Santa’, Rivista di Studi Testuali, 5 (2003), 73–98

‘Y a-t-il une identité occitane au moyen âge?’, in Récits d’Occitanie, ed. J.-C. Bouvier and J.-N. Pelen (Aix-en-Provence, 2005), pp. 5–28

‘La Canso d’Antioca occitane: gallicismes phonologiques et histoire textuelle’, in ‘Ab nou cor et ab nou talen.’ Nouvelles tendances de la recherche médiévale occitane, ed. A. Ferrari and S. Romualdi (Modena, 2004), pp. 289–96 (despite the vol. date this was published in 2006)

‘L’édition des tensos et partimens’, in ‘Ab nou cor et ab nou talen.’ Nouvelles tendances de la recherche médiévale occitane, ed. A. Ferrari and S. Romualdi (Modena, 2004), pp. 317–24

‘Raynouard et Levy à l’Internet’, in ‘Ab nou cor et ab nou talen.’ Nouvelles tendances de la recherche médiévale occitane, ed. A. Ferrari and S. Romualdi (Modena, 2004), pp. 337–39

2 entries for an Encyclopaedia of the Crusades, ed. A.V. Murray:
• The Troubadours and the Crusades
• The Song of the Albigensian Crusade

‘Five trobairitz tensos’, Rivista di Studi Testuali, 6 (2004), 191–245

‘Jeux poétiques et communication de valeurs : les tensos et partimens des troubadours’, in Comunicazione e propaganda nei secoli XII e XIII. Atti del convegno internazionale (Messina, 24–26 maggio 2007), ed. R. Castano, F. Latella and T. Sorrenti (Rome, 1007), pp. 515–28

‘Joan d’Albuzon – Nicolet de Turin En Nicolet, d’un sognie qu’ieu sognava (BdT 265.2 = 310.1)’, Lecturae tropatorum, 1 (2008), http://www.lt.unina.it/Paterson-2008.pdf; English version ‘Writing the present: Boniface II of Montferrat and Frederick II Hohenstaufen’, Reading Medieval Studies, 34 (2008) (Medieval Historical Discourses: Essays in honour of Professor Peter S. Noble), 169–90

‘Les tençons et partimens’, Europe, xcl–xcli (2008), 102–14

‘Conventions et engagements dans la Canso d’Antioca occitane’, Serment, promesse et engagement: Rituels et modalités au Moyen Age, ed. F. Laurent, Montpellier, 2008, pp. 195–204

‘Insultes, amour et une trobairitz : la tenso de Raimbaut de Vaqueiras et Albert Malaspina (PC 15.1)’, in La Voix occitane. Actes du VIIIe Congrès de l’Association Internationale d’Etudes Occitanes, 12–17 octobre 2005, ed. G. Latry, 2 vols (Bordeaux, 2009), I, pp. 227–36

‘Une culture du verbe: éloquence et traditions «jongleuresques» chez les troubadours’, in Au temps de la croisade. Sociétés et pouvoirs en Languedoc au XIIIe siècle, Actes des conférences et tables rondes tenues dans l’Aude, 3 avril–30 octobre 2009, Carcassonne, 2009, pp. 107–16

‘Guillem Rainol d’At, Quant aug chantar lo gal sus el erbos (BdT 231.4)’, Lecturae tropatorum 3, 2010, http://www.lt.unina.it/Paterson-2010.pdf

‘Une perspective aquitaine des croisades? Le témoignage des troubadours’, in L'Aquitaine des littératures médiévales (XIe - XIII- siècle), ed. Jean-Yves Casanova and Valérie Fasseur (dir.) (Paris, 2011), pp. 181-199

‘James the Conqueror, the Holy Land and the troubadours’, Cultura Neolatina, 71 (2011), 211-87

‘Greeks and Latins at the time of the Fourth Crusade: Patriarch John X Kamateros and a troubadour tenso’, in Languages of Love and Hate. Conflict, Communication, and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. S. Lambert and H. Nicholson (Turnhout, 2012), pp. 119-139

‘Austorc de Segret, [No s]ai qui.m so tan suy [des]conoyssens, BdT 41.1’, Lecturae Tropatorum, 5, 2012, http://www.lt.unina.it/ – ISSN 1974-4374, 30 May 2012, http://www.lt.unina.it.Paterson-2012.pdf

‘Calega Panzan, Ar es sazos c’om si deu alegrar (BdT 107.1), Lecturae tropatorum, 5, 2012, ISSN 1974-4374, 18 dicembre 2012, http://www.lt.unina.it/Paterson-2012b.pdf, 24 pp.

‘Guillem Fabre, Pus dels majors (BdT 216.2) and Hon mais vey, pus truep sordeyor (BdT 216.1)’, Lecturae tropatorum, 6, 2013, http://www.lt.unina.it/Paterson-2013.pdf

‘Peire del Vilar, Sendatz vermelhs, endis e ros (BdT 365.1)’, Lecturae tropatorum, 6, 30 June 2013, pp. 1-18, http://www.lt.unina.it/Paterson-2013b.pdf

‘Anonimo, Finament (BdT 461.122)’, Lecturae tropatorum, 7 (2014), 1-35, http://www.lt.unina.it/Paterson-2014.pdf

‘Quelques questions à propos de la «féodalité méridionale» et des troubadours’, in Los que fan voire e tresluir l’occitan: Actes de Xe congrès de l’AIEO, Béziers, 12-19 juin 2011, ed. by Carmen Alén Garabato, Claire Torreilles and Marie-Jeanne Verny, Limoges, 2014, pp. 419-24

‘Lyric Responses to the Crusades. Parody and Dissent’, in Parodies courtoises, parodies de la courtoisie, ed. M. Madureira, C. Clamote Carreto and A. P. Morais, Paris, 2016, pp. 525-32

‘Troubadour Responses to the Reconquista’, Romance Philology, 70 (2016), 181-202

'Real Animals in the Siège d'Antioche', in The Crusades and Nature. Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages, ed. Jessalyn L. Bird and Elizabeth Lapina, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 85-111

'Two Anonymous Troubadour Texts: Quan vei la flor sobre.l sambuc (BEdT 461.205) and Cant me donet l’anel daurat (BEdT 461.203a)', in Troubadour Texts and Contexts. Essays in Honor of Wendy Pfeffer, ed. Courtney Joseph Wells, Lisa S. Bevevino and Sarah-Grace Heller, D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, 2024, pp. 62-78.

Recordings

The Occitan section of Voicing Medieval Women. An anthology of texts by, about, and for women in the Middle Ages, ed. J. Wogan-Brown, Liverpool (The Chaucer Studio), 1996, 4 tape recordings of readings with an accompanying booklet (brief introduction, texts, translation, notes, bibliography): La Comtessa de Dia, Canso, and Anonymous trobairitz, Sirventes.