Review of O’Neill, Mary. 2006. Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvère Repertoire. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Mary O’Neill’s book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of an important monophonic repertory that has received relatively little attention from musicologists, despite its preservation in numerous manuscripts.The reasons for this neglect are well known: scholarship on the music of the trouvères has generally addressed their songs