I have been wondering about this. I love lyrics. One can find everything expressed in love songs. Popularity, success and money follow the dude with the best songs! Bower bird excellence.
I was lucky enough to have studied courtly love from Professor Valerie Lagorio, my Intro to Chaucer instructor. I had forgotten her name but the search string I used to find her (first response!) says a lot about how wonderful that class was: "University of iowa chaucer professor hawaii hulu dancing".
I really enjoyed this. You're offering what's so often missing in descriptive summaries of literary developments--the deeper imaginative hermeneutical inquiry: What did this mean to them? And the anthropological questions of how what seems to be occurring or is being expressed fits within the spectrum of human experience and artistic expression as we know it.
As a graduate student in Spanish Literature I remember studying the Jarchas of Medieval (Arab) Spain and the typical remark that these were the first instances of lyric poetry in Europe. But what does lyric poetry mean to a culture? Is it the manifestation of psychological phenomena that weren't there in human consciousness before or the novelty of capturing a behavior that was practiced long before the artistic record. Is it the advent of leisure time or a new tolerance by religious authorities and/or rulers?
I think you would enjoy:
Parker Aronson, Stacey L., "Sexual Violence in Las Jarchas" (2009). Faculty Working Papers. 8.
I have been wondering about this. I love lyrics. One can find everything expressed in love songs. Popularity, success and money follow the dude with the best songs! Bower bird excellence.
Some interesting parallels between what you describe and Joseph Henrich's The Weirdest People in the World, here is a link that covers some of the same ground about proper marriage relationships as decreed by the Church https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-henrich-weird-people/615496/
I was lucky enough to have studied courtly love from Professor Valerie Lagorio, my Intro to Chaucer instructor. I had forgotten her name but the search string I used to find her (first response!) says a lot about how wonderful that class was: "University of iowa chaucer professor hawaii hulu dancing".
Ted, do you read Latin or does this MS exist in translation somewhere?
I really enjoyed this. You're offering what's so often missing in descriptive summaries of literary developments--the deeper imaginative hermeneutical inquiry: What did this mean to them? And the anthropological questions of how what seems to be occurring or is being expressed fits within the spectrum of human experience and artistic expression as we know it.
As a graduate student in Spanish Literature I remember studying the Jarchas of Medieval (Arab) Spain and the typical remark that these were the first instances of lyric poetry in Europe. But what does lyric poetry mean to a culture? Is it the manifestation of psychological phenomena that weren't there in human consciousness before or the novelty of capturing a behavior that was practiced long before the artistic record. Is it the advent of leisure time or a new tolerance by religious authorities and/or rulers?
I think you would enjoy:
Parker Aronson, Stacey L., "Sexual Violence in Las Jarchas" (2009). Faculty Working Papers. 8.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/fac_work/8