{"product_id":"an-introduction-to-old-occitan-9781603290548","title":"An Introduction to Old Occitan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Old Occitan\u003c\/i\u003e is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages. Each of the thirty-two chapters discusses a subject in the study of the language (e.g., stressed vowels, subjunctive mood) and includes an exercise based on a reading of an Occitan text that has been edited afresh for this volume. An essential glossary analyzes every occurrence of every word in the readings and gives cognates in other Romance languages as well as the source of each word in Latin or other languages. The book also contains a list of prefixes, infixes, and suffixes and a dictionary of proper names.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam D. Paden is Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. A specialist in literature of the Middle Ages, he was co-editor with the late Mario Trovato of a 13th-century philosophical treatise in Latin, Guillelmus de Aragonia, \u003ci\u003eDe Nobilitate Animi\u003c\/i\u003e (2012); co-author with Frances Freeman Paden of a book of English verse translations, \u003ci\u003eTroubadour Poems from the South of France\u003c\/i\u003e (2007); editor of essay collections on \u003ci\u003eMedieval Lyric: Genres in Historical Context\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Middle Ages: Medieval Literature in the 1990s\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), and \u003ci\u003eThe Voice of the Trobairitz: Perspectives on the Women Troubadours\u003c\/i\u003e (1989); editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Pastourelle\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Poems of the Troubadour Bertran de Born\u003c\/i\u003e (1986). He was awarded a Mellon Emeritus Fellowship in 2011 for a project on \"Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Language Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918168789266,"sku":"9781603290548","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20e01a5f-e89b-4e4f-8fbc-e625dfd266fc.jpg?v=1738878573","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-introduction-to-old-occitan-9781603290548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}