. The lyric poets who wrote in Occitan (also called Provençal), the language of southern France, during the 12th and 13th centuries left an extensive corpus of songs remarkable for their diversity, quality, and influence. The troubadours made...

A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the European High Middle Ages. The troubadour school or tradition began in the eleventh century in the Occitan language of southern France, but it subsequently spread throughout Italy, Spain, and...

THE TROUBADOURS: AN INTRODUCTION. Edited by Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 330 p. The editors tell us in their Preface that "this book is both a collection of self-contained essays and a textbook" (p. xi). These aims...

JIM McGUINNESS, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-02-1999 TRACKS OF A TROUBADOUR -- ROGER MCGUINN BRINGS FOLK HISTORY TO THE INTERNET By JIM McGUINNESS, Staff Writer Date: 08-02-1999, Monday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two...

You’re watching a Seinfeld rerun, or the late-night news on the WB. Cut to commercial. “Woke up this morning/ Cable’s triple play in my head …” It sounds familiar, doesn’t it? There’s a pretty girl on your TV, dancing and singing in a huge, loft-like...

James Taylor still has a friend in Carole King.Taylor and King were a match made in 1969 at Hollywood's famed Troubadour nightclub. They were rehearsing there Tuesday afternoon for a series of benefit concerts coinciding with the club's 50th anniversary.He reached the top of the...

In the following essay, Burgwinkle analyzes some of Uc de Saint Circ's financial relationships with his patrons.

In the following essay, Bruckner discusses how the trobairitz altered the prevailing poetic system that was largely shaped by males.

In the following essay, Briffault argues that Provençal troubadour poetry led developing Western literature away from a Greco-Roman course.