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French culture. Medieval points of interest.
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From: cjcannon at ucdavis.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: RE: 'New book'
Date: 3 Dec 1993 18:41:13 -0500
Greetings to all ye Fisherfolk!
One of my correspondents indicated that he had been passing along
bibliographic info. on 'on-topic' books he'd seen at the library where he
worked. He was quitting to go off to Grad School, and suggested I take
his place. I don't know if I'll be able to do that, but here's one I just
copycataloged:
Paterson, Linda M.
The world of the troubadours : medieval Occitan society, c. 1100-c. 1300
/ Linda M. Paterson.
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1993.
xii, 367 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-355) and index.
Library of Congress Card no.:92-37723 ISBN:0521352401 ca. $60 hdbd.
The dust-jacket 'blurp' suggests that this is the first comprehensive
study of Occitania, 'the south of France' and its society. It says that
the author's approach is multi-disciplinary and offers insights into
issues otherwise unavailable to those without specialist
linguistic/literary expertise.
I hope it meets someone's interests/needs.--Carol (currently awaiting my
info./application packet in order to join the SCA, which means I'm one of
those 'infernal' lurkers, I suppose.)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:13:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Lisa Steele <lsteele at mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
Subject: White Rose Publishing
To: Mark Harris <markh at sphinx>
OK, you asked:
White Rose is a small publishing company specializing in medieval
source books, atlases, etc. (we also publish a medieval RPG). Our most
recent work _Medieval France_ is a 285 page atlas covering 9-15C French
geography, history, society, 14 counties and duchies, useful vocab.,
common names, etc. It includes 2 full size maps, 14 regional maps, 8
city maps (including a 2 page spread of 15C Paris) and a fair amount of
misc. art. It is being used as a supp. text by the history department of
a well known college (we don't yet have their permission to say who) and
was just reviewed in the Herald's Letters of Acceptances and Returns.
Price is $21.95 plus $3.00 shipping from White Rose, P.O. Box 933,
Amherst, MA 01004-0933. (Mass. residents add 5% sales tax).
We are hoping to release a University source book by Pennsic and have
contracted for a Cathedral and a Jewish Communities source book. We are
in the market for writers, artists, and public domain art.
--Esclarmonde
From: guettier at moretcri.ensmp.fr (Christophe GUETTIER)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Help with French persona, please!
Date: 4 Aug 1995 06:52:13 GMT
Organization: E'cole Nationale Supe'rieure des Mines de Paris, Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI-ENSMP)
Ferro, Non Orro
Here are some Langue D'Oc Great Names
Southern France Medieval Historical Names :
Hugue de Lusignan
Adhemar de Monteil
Raymond de St Gilles, Conte de Toulouse, Marquis de Provence
Guillaume de Sabran
Conte des Beaux
...
Some Langue D'Oc feudal places :
Mallemort
Noves (Commanderie Templier)
Vaison
Carcassone
Muret
Mons
Comps
Aigues Mortes
Seguret
ChateauNeuf (also a good wine)
Vitrolles
Gigondas
Barroux
Puylaurens (Cathare place)
Montsegur (Cathare place)
Barbentanne
Boulbon
Chateurenard
Gordes
Cordes
Millau
....
d'Andaon
Subject: Re: ANST - Bill de Provence
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 97 23:10:48 -0500
From: Scott Fridenberg <scottf at galstar.com>
To: "Ansteorra" <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>
>I just happened to notice this signature line today:
>>--Bill (who will soon hopefully have a better name once he can nail down
>>some research on 13th c. Provence)
For 11c - 13c Provence research an execellent place to start is a book called
Pilgrims, Heretics, and Lovers by Claude Marks. Macmillan Publishing CO.,
Inc. New York. ISBN 0-02-579770-0
The book is an introduction to the Troubadours disguised as a
history book. It's very readable and makes an execellent introduction to
Provencal culture.
This book is prouably out of print so you will need to use Inter-Library
Loan if your library doesn't have a copy. In fact if you want to do much
study on Provence you will prouably get to know your ILL librarian pretty
well.
Another good book is
The World of the Troubadurs: Medieval Occitan Society, c. 1100-c. 1300
Linda M. Paterson. Cambridge University Press 1993. ISBN 0-521-35240-1
I belive that this book is still in print.
I hope this helps. If anyone is interested in research on the
Troubadours, I've tracked down some pretty good sources, and would be
glad to help.
Robert Fitzmorgan
Barony of Northkeep
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:47:36 EDT
From: WOLFMOMSCA at aol.com
Subject: Re: SC - De Bello Gallico was: Celtic Dung Fires
h940114 at stud.kol.su.se writes:
<< Speaking of DBC...Has anyone been able to find an english translation of it ?
I've searched for it but only come up with smaller parts/extracts on-line which
were still in Latin which is not, I'm sorry to say, on my list of languages
I'm fluent in.
Angus MacIomhair. >>
The Battle for Gaul, Translation of De bello Gallico, tr. Anne & Peter
Wiseman, ISBN 0-87923-306-0, publ David R. Godine, Boston, 1980.
From: "willowdewisp at juno.com" <willowdewisp at juno.com>
Date: June 29, 2007 12:12:58 AM CDT
To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Ansteorra] Persona French
Here is one of those Victorian books everyone warns you about. I found it fairly correct and it tells you where it got a lot of its stuff (no real footnote) It really gives some good insights into the French medieval world. Also the data is in one place. I wouldn't use it as documentation for A&S because artisans look down on anything Victorian but it will give you a feel for Medieval France.
This site has the illustration which seem to be taken form period sources.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/9/4/10940/10940-h/10940-h.htm#ch14
Willow
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