Matfre Ermengaud, lecteur, maître et juge des troubadours

Abstract

The treatment of the troubadour quotations contained in the Perilhos tractat, which forms the third branch of Matfre Ermengaud’s Breviari d’Amor, is a clever construction of authority, transferred from the former troubadours to the author of the Breviari. By modelling a doctrinal discourse based on a debate on fin’amor, this one makes each troubadour cited the emblem of a moral posture, which explains the representation conferred on each person by textual posterity and justifies the place that Matfre gives him in the afterlife.

Keywords

• Breviari d’Amor
• Matfre Ermengaud
• authority
• Marcabru
• quotation