Telling the Tale of Jaufre. Bringing a Thirteenth-Century Story to Twenty-First-Century Listeners

€39.00


Anne Lister

Publication date: October, 2023

Pages: 251, colour


ISBN 978-615-6405-93-7                        Paperback, €39.00

ISBN 978-615-6405-92-0                        Hardcover, €66.00

eISBN 978-615-6405-94-4                      eBook, €66.00

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A Prefatory Note


Introduction


   CHAPTER 1. How the Story Begins


   CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Storytelling


   CHAPTER 3. Exploring the Manuscripts and the Structure of the Story


   CHAPTER 4. Exploring the Background


   CHAPTER 5. Exploring the Differences


   CHAPTER 6. Telling the Story Today


   CHAPTER 7. Decisions, Discoveries and Evaluations


Conclusion


Bibliography

Data sheet

Author(s)
Anne Lister
Imprint
Trivent Medieval
ISBN (hardcover)
978-615-6405-92-0
ISBN (paperback)
978-615-6405-93-7
eISBN
978-615-6405-94-4
Publication date
October, 2023
Page numbers
51

Specific References

For the first time in almost 800 years Anne Purbrick (under her performing name of Anne Lister) has brought the lively, engaging, and entertaining Tale of Jaufre off the library shelves and has been telling it to audiences. There are several mysteries about Jaufre – when and why was a story about King Arthur written for a king of Aragon, and why in Occitan? Investigating this 13th century story from the practical standpoint of a storyteller has produced a number of new insights and discoveries.  This book explores the background in detail, from the manuscripts and fragments which have survived to the people for whom the story was created, as well as its extensive later history, and then discusses the decisions, the revelations and the difficulties of telling the story to 21st century audiences. The Tale of Jaufre is remarkably little known outside modern Spain and yet, as this book demonstrates, it has links to the extended family of Alienor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England, and therefore across Europe. 

ANNE LISTER (Dr. Margaret Anne Purbrick) has been telling and writing stories and songs for most of her adult life. Her first degree and MA (at Warwick University) both focussed on medieval French and Occitan literature, which is how she first met Jaufre. After a full and extremely varied career in teaching, she took advantage of retirement to complete her PhD in the School of Welsh in Cardiff University, working with Sioned Davies, exploring Jaufre from a storyteller’s perspective. Anne is still writing and performing her songs, and writing and telling stories, and finding new audiences for Jaufre. She lives in the hills of south east Wales with her husband and two cats.

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