witnesses back to Arthur. After three days without food or rest, he angers Brunissen by
sleeping in her orchard. The two fall in love, but Jaufre flees her crazed people’s attacks.
Eventually vanquishing Taulat, he liberates the wounded knight Melian de Monmelior,
whom Taulat has tortured monthly for seven years. This frees his subjects, including
Brunissen, from lamentations and compulsive rage. After more otherworldly adventures,
Jaufre marries Brunissen at Cardoil. Although often parodic of Arthurian material, Jaufre
reaffirms the power of true piety against giants, felons, lepers, witches, and devils.
Amelia E.Van Vleck
Brunel, Clovis, ed. Jaufre, roman arthurien du XIIIe siècle en vers provençaux. 2 vols. Paris:
Didot, 1943.
Keller, Hans-Erich, ed. Studia Occitanica in memoriam Paul Rémy. 2 vols. Kalamazoo: Medieval
Institute, 1986, Vol. 2: The Narrative—Philology.
Arthur, Ross G., trans. Jaufre: An Occitan Arthurian Romance. New York: Garland, 1992.
JAUFRE RUDEL
(fl. 1120–48). The troubadour Jaufre Rudel, lord of Blaye in the Gironde, sang of earthly
love infused by a mystical quest expressed also through his participation in the Second
Crusade. Of his six surviving songs of certain authenticity, Jaufre’s most successful
canso is directed to his love from afar, or amor de loing, which gives this lyric its
leitmotif and keyword. In this song and in Qan lo rius, he voices his yearning for a distant
love, diversely interpreted by critics as a woman, the Virgin Mary, God, or the Holy
Land. Recent scholarship underlines instead the deliberate ambiguity in Jaufre’s fusion of
linguistic registers and love objects drawn from both profane and sacred traditions. The
legend of his love for the Countess of Tripoli dates from the pseudobiographical vida and
earlier. It has been echoed in every century since the 13th by authors as varied as
Petrarch, Stendhal, Rostand, Browning, Heine, Carducci, Pound, and Döblin.
Roy S.Rosenstein
[See also: TROUBADOUR POETRY]
Jaufre Rudel. The Songs of Jaufre Rudel, ed. Rupert T.Pickens. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of
Mediaeval Studies, 1978.
——. The Poetry of Cercamon and Jaufre Rudel, ed. and trans. George Wolf and Roy Rosenstein.
New York: Garland, 1983.
. Il canzoniere di Jaufre Rudel, ed. Giorgio Chiarini. Rome: Japadre, 1985.
Rosenstein, Roy. “New Perspectives on Distant Love: Jaufre Rudel, Uc Bru, and Sarrazina.”
Modern Philology 87(1990): 225–38.
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