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Barbara Hughes Fowler.
Songs of a Friend: Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal: Selections from Cantigas de Amigo.
Published Chapel Hill: North Carolina U.P., 1996 .
ISBN 080782271X.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; decorated boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 144x242x15mm.
Page count: xiii,122pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the boards on this copy are a bit warped, starting to fade a little on their edges and corners; some light foxing on the page edges; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £19.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback $30.00]
Weight without packaging: 388g.

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Provides a representative selection of modern English translations from the cantigas de amigo tradition.

Contents: Afonso Eanes do Coton; Afonso Lopes de Baiam; Afonso Sanches; Airas Corpancho; Airas Nunes de Santiago; Bernal de Bonaval; Dom Dinis; Estevam Coelho; Fernan Frojaz; Fernan Gonçalvez de Calheiros; Fernando Esquio; Joam Airas de Santiago; Joam d'avoin; Joan Baveca; Joam de Cangas; Joam Garcia Guilhade; Joam Lopez d'Ulhoa; Joam Nunes Camanez; Joam Servando; Joam Soarez Coelho; Joam Zorro; Juliâo Bolseiro; Lopo; Lourenço; Martin Codax; Martin de Ginzo; Meen Rodrigues Tenoiro; Meendinho; Nuno Fernandez Torneol; Nuno Perez Sandeu; Nuno Proco; Paio Calvo; Paio de Cana; Paio Goez Charinho; Paio Soarez de Taveiroos; Pedro Eanes Solaz; Pero Garcia Burgalês; Pero Gonçalvez de Portocarreiro; Pero Meogo; Pero da Ponte; Pero Viviaez; Sancho Sanchez; Vaasco Gil; Vaasco Praga de Sandim.
Appendix: Notes on the poets.

Illustrations: 9 monochrome woodcuts
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 3pp
Notes: infrequent, at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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