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3 unusual facts about Peter Dronke


Alais, Yselda, and Carenza

Magda Bogin and Peter Dronke have read the opening line of both her stanzas as beginning with the address N'Alais i na Iselda ("Lady Alais and lady Yselda").

Castelloza

One scholar, Peter Dronke, has seen Castelloza's songs as forming a lyric cycle.

Foebus abierat

The poem was rediscovered in 1960 by the medieval-lyric specialist Peter Dronke in a Bodleian manuscript dating ca. 1000 and copied at the monastery of Fleury on the Loire river.


Ordo Rachelis

Peter Dronke believes it was to the dialogic poem Quid tu, virgo by Notker the Stammerer, written probably in the 860s, that the eleventh-century dramatists were responding with their Rachel sequences.


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