Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France Toward an Environmental History

Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France Toward an Environmental History
- ISBN 13:
9780197547779
- ISBN 10:
019754777X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 06/13/2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The book offers close readings of love songs, pastourelles, motets, and rondets from the likes of Gace Brulé, Adam de la Halle, Guillaume de Machaut, and many others. Saltzstein shows how their music-text relationships illuminate the ways in which song helped to foster identities tied to specific landscapes among the knightly classes, the clergy, aristocratic women, and peasants. By connecting social types to topographies, trouvère songs and the manuscripts in which they were preserved presented models of identity for later generations of songwriters, performers, listeners, patrons, and readers to emulate, thereby projecting into the future specific ways of being on the land. Written in the long thirteenth century during the last major era of climate change, trouvère songs, as Saltzstein demonstrates, shape our understanding of how identity formation has rested on relationships between nature, culture, and change.