The Spirit of the Court: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Courtly Literature

by Glyn S. Burgess (Editor), Robert A. Taylor (Editor), Alan Deyermond et al (Editor)

42 papers on all aspects of court-orientated culture, ranging from the period of the earliest troubadour, William of Poitiers, in the twelfth century, to the Renaissance and beyond.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1985

About the author

Glyn Sheridan Burgess is a British scholar of medieval language and literature, Em. Prof. at the University of Liverpool. He has published on Marie de France, besides other topics, and is the translator of the Penguin edition of the Lays of Marie de France and the Song of Roland. He was awarded a knighthood in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1998.