Volume 50, Number 2 · February 13, 2003
Noble Shadow
By W.S. Merwin
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours
by Fredric L. Cheyette
Cornell University Press, 474 pp., $35.00
Ermengard of Narbonne, the central figure of Fredric Cheyette's excellent book, was a powerful twelfth-century viscountess, a warrior, and a patron of poets, who lived in Narbonne, a city on the Mediterranean that had once been Roman.
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