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Marisa Galvez

Stanford University
Department of Comparative Literature

Marisa Galvez is a doctoral student in the department of Comparative Literature. She received her B.A. in French from Yale University. She is currently writing a dissertation which examines medieval songbooks in the Occitan, Middle High German and Iberian traditions.

Project Summary

Medieval Songbooks: The Transmission and Reception of Vernacular Lyric considers Occitan troubadour, Middle High German Minnesang and Iberian cancionero songbook traditions from the high to late medieval period (ca. 1200-1500), and charts the rise and persistence of the songbook genre. The argument focuses on the development of the songbook as a concrete, communal object that establishes a system of values for the reception of medieval lyric, including rhetorical, bibliographical, and phenomenological horizons. Moreover, this comparative study examines the role of songbooks in poetic attribution, canon formation and the concept of courtliness amidst the assimilation of new historical realities and material practices.