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Yeah, I talk about it here (https://acoup.blog/2020/04/16/collections-a-trip-through-bertran-de-born-martial-values-in-the-12th-century-occitan-nobility/ …) with some reference to his corpus. Clearly the song is really playful (and has a political context), but it's not his only song that glorifies war or presents it as a positive.
I ended up reading through his corpus for a term paper years ago and I do remember the arguments that take the whole thing to be in jest - it is a satirical genre - but given the political purpose, I read the endorsement of doing some war as genuine.
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On the blog, I paired it with a different pro-war stance from the Arabic poetic tradition (https://acoup.blog/2020/04/10/collections-antarah-ibn-shaddad-victory-songs/ …) which shares much of the same sense of aristocratic 'swagger' and the idea that war can be beneficial, e.g. "The Battle of 'Ura'ir was a healing."
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Good stuff, Bret. I, too, find it hard to read it as straight-up satire, but straight-up battle-lust also vexes. No doubt clarity was there in the nuances we miss when all we have are literary remains of essentially performative works in a culture not our own.
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