Books by Simon Gaunt

The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective.

New critical edition of complete work of 12c Occitanian troubadour Marcabru, crucial figure in development of European courtly lyric.

Troubadours and Irony re-examines the work of five early troubadours, namely Marcabru, Bernart Marti, Peire d'Alvernha, Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil, to argue that the courtly poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with irony and that many troubadour songs were playful, laced with humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious.