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Dolssor Conina
Lust, the Bawdy, & Obscenity in Medieval Occitan
& Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poetry & Latin Secular Love Song
[In English, Latin & Portuguese languages]

By Ulf Malm
September 2001
Uppsala University, Sweden
ISBN: 9155450598
296 Pages
$51.50 paper original

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This study provides a fairly comprehensive survey of medieval poetry in two romance vernaculars, Occitan and Galician-Portuguese, and in Latin. The subject is the description of wordly love focusing on lust, the bawdy, and obscenity as expressed in a number of poems.

Poetry
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Historia Litterarum, No. 22