Table of contents : CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction ONE. An Overview: Why the Troubadours? The Essentials TWO. The Lyric Texts THREE. Fin 'amor FOUR. Versification FIVE. Music Accessory Texts SIX. The Non-lyric Texts SEVEN. The Vidas and Razos A Subgroup: The Women Troubadours EIGHT. The Trobairitz NINE. Origins TEN. Northern France ELEVEN. The Minnesingers THIRTEEN. Italy FOURTEEN. Italian Troubadours General and Technical Considerations FIFTEEN. Manuscripts SIXTEEN. Translation SEVENTEEN. Language EIGHTEEN. Rhetoric NINETEEN. Topoi TWENTY. Imagery and Vocabulary TWENTY-ONE. Bibliography Appendix: Editions of the Troubadours and Related Works CONTRIBUTORS INDEX