2019/03/01 by Elizabeth Eva Leach · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis #Medieval European Literature and History #Medieval Literature and History
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/musa.12121
openalex publication_date 2019/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
ABSTRACT This article offers analyses of three songs by Blondel de Nesle: Onques maiz nus hom ne chanta , En tous tens que vente bise and A l'entree de la saison . It proposes that close attention to individual songs is a necessary preliminary to amassing data on overall norms that will reciprocally affect the way those individual songs are interpreted editorially and thus understood analytically. This hermeneutic circle between analysis and editing is unavoidable for trouvère song, given the relationship between the literate and oral/performative traditions implied in the degree of variation between sources. Nonetheless, certain analytical interpretations can be advanced in the first stage of considering individual songs.