CONTENTS.
PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.
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Sect. I.—Introductory remarks. Phovence.—Im-
perfect knowledge of the works of the Trouba-
dours.—Writers on the subject.—M. Raynouard.
—Early monuments of Provencal poetry.—Its
cultivation.—Decline of the art in the South.—
Ascendancy of the North-French dialect or Ro-
mance.—Character of the Troubadours to be
sought in their works.—Remarks on the question,
whether the Troubadours confined themselves to
lyric poetry, or like the Northern poets also com-
posed Romances and Tales.—Remains of Proven-
cal Romances and Tales.—Real extent of the lite-
rary productions of the Troubadours now uncer-
tain............... I
Sect. II.—Catalonia.— Connexion between the
courts of Barcelona and Provence.—Catalan lan-
guage.—Remains of its poetry. —Ascendancy of
the Castilian tongue.—Mosen Jordi deSant Jordi.
—Mosen Jayme Febrer.—Jayme Roig.—Ausias
March. Castili.e.—Supposed Hispano-Arabic
origin of Troubadour poetry controverted.^—The
different classes of early Castilian poetry.—The
Spanish Trobadors.—Alexandre Magno ... 27
PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.
page
Sect. I.—Introductory remarks. Phovence.—Im-
perfect knowledge of the works of the Trouba-
dours.—Writers on the subject.—M. Raynouard.
—Early monuments of Provencal poetry.—Its
cultivation.—Decline of the art in the South.—
Ascendancy of the North-French dialect or Ro-
mance.—Character of the Troubadours to be
sought in their works.—Remarks on the question,
whether the Troubadours confined themselves to
lyric poetry, or like the Northern poets also com-
posed Romances and Tales.—Remains of Proven-
cal Romances and Tales.—Real extent of the lite-
rary productions of the Troubadours now uncer-
tain............... I
Sect. II.—Catalonia.— Connexion between the
courts of Barcelona and Provence.—Catalan lan-
guage.—Remains of its poetry. —Ascendancy of
the Castilian tongue.—Mosen Jordi deSant Jordi.
—Mosen Jayme Febrer.—Jayme Roig.—Ausias
March. Castili.e.—Supposed Hispano-Arabic
origin of Troubadour poetry controverted.^—The
different classes of early Castilian poetry.—The
Spanish Trobadors.—Alexandre Magno ... 27