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Learn about the origin, history, and examples of troubadour, a poet-musician of the Middle Ages who sang about courtly love. Find synonyms, antonyms, translations, and related words for troubadour.
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A troubadour (English: / ˈ t r uː b ə d ʊər,-d ɔːr /, French: ⓘ; Occitan: trobador [tɾuβaˈðu] ⓘ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word troubadour is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz.
Learn about the troubadours, lyric poets of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy, who wrote in the langue d’oc of Provence from the 11th to the 13th century. Explore their verse forms, themes, melodies, and influence on later European poetry and music.
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noun. one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. Beginning with William IX of Aquitaine, the troubadours would become a veritable movement in the history of medieval literature, in addition to being one of the largest movements in secular medieval music.
A troubadour was a male poet and singer who traveled around southern France and northern Italy between the 11th and 13th centuries entertaining rich people. Learn more about the history, themes and examples of troubadour literature, and see how to say it in different languages.
