One Hundred Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais from the Late Middle Ages

French lyric poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries continued many of the traditions of the earlier Provencal troubadours and northern trouveres and they inherited and developed the fixed forms - the ballade, the rondeau and the virelai.Dr Wilkins explains the structure and derivation of the fixed forms and gives an exposition of the characteristic themes.