{{Short description|French linguist (1859-1953)}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Alfred Jeanroy 1878.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 5 July 1859 | birth_place = Mangiennes, Meuse | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1953|03|13|1859|07|05}} | death_place = Paris | othername = | occupation = Linguist | years_active = | spouse = | signature = }} '''Alfred Jeanroy''' (5 July 1859 – 13 March 1953) was a French linguist.
Jeanroy was a leading scholar studying troubadour poetry, publishing over 600 works. He established an influential view of the second generation of troubadours divided into two camps: “idealists” (e.g. Jaufre Rudel, Ebles de Ventadorn) and “realists” (e.g. Marcabru).<ref>Amelia E. Van Vleck, ''The Lyric Texts'', p. 28, in ''A Handbook of the Troubadours'' (1995), F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis editors.</ref>
== Selected works == * 1893: ''Mystères provençaux du quinzième siècle'', publié avec une introduction et un glossaire par A. Jeanroy et H. Teulié, Toulouse, Privat. * 1913: ''Les chansons de Guillaume IX, duc d’Aquitaine: (1071–1127)'', Paris, Champion. * 1914: ''Les Joies du Gai Savoir: Recueil de poésies couronnées par le consistoire de la Gaie Science (1324–1484)'', publ. avec la trad. de J. B. Noulet, rev. et corr.; une introd., des notes et un glossaire, Toulouse, Privat / Paris, Picard. * 1922: ''Les Poésies de Cercamon'', Paris, Champion. * 1924: ''La geste de Guillaume Fièrebrace et de Rainouart au Tinel, d’après les poèmes des XIIe et XIIIe siècles'', de Boccard, Paris. * 1925: ''Les origines de la poésie lyrique en France au moyen age: études de littérature française et comparée, suivies de textes inédits'', Paris: H. Champion, 3.ª ed. * 1927: ''Anthologie des troubadours, XIIe-XIIIe siècles. Introduction, traductions et notes par Alfred Jeanroy''. * 1934: ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours'', Toulouse, Privat / Paris, Didier. * 1945: ''Histoire sommaire de la poésie occitane. Des origines à la fin du XVIIIe'', Toulouse, Privat / Paris, Didier. * 1957: ''Jongleurs et troubadours gascons des XIIe et XIIIe siècles'', Paris, Champion.
== Notes == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1953_num_97_1_10071 Éloge funèbre de M. Alfred Jeanroy] on Persée * [https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4078952 Finding aid to Alfred Jeanroy Papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.] {{Authority control}}
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