I have elsewhere endeavoured to show the role played in mediaeval Europe by the Troubadours and Minnesingers (Love Singers), and the subject might be infinitely extended.
Hence it was natural for the troubadours to seek the rewards of their art in the brilliant courts of Italy.
The troubadours and their Sicilian imitators declared that love came from seeing, that it entered through the eyes of the beholder, and thence descended to the heart.
Whereas the love of the troubadours was romantic and chivalrous, the love of Guinicelli was intellectual and philosophical.
This north Italian poetry is always included in the Provencal collections and the writers are known as troubadours in spite of their Italian nationality.
The influence of thetroubadours made itself felt in Sicily about the same time as in Northern Italy, only here the imitation was in the Italian language and not in Provencal.
It is quite possible that if the troubadours had been bothered about "style," they would not have brought their blend of word and tune to so elaborate a completion.
The spirit of the amatory poetry of the gay troubadours of Provence had found its way into Italy, but it was its more spiritual side which was to make the greater impression upon the national literature at this early stage of its development.
It was her pleasure also to harbor these troubadours who sang her praises, and learn from them the secrets of their art; and in this pleasant intercourse it often chanced that she was inspired by the god of song, and vied with them in poesy.
Smith, who has written so entertainingly of the Troubadours at Home, says that it was their expedient to make love a "science and an art.
They are surprisingly well acquainted with the writings of Jean de Nostradamus, to whom the Félibres are indebted for a lot of erroneous ideas concerning the Troubadours and the Courts of Love.
It is curious that the Troubadours produced no dramatic literature whatever, and that the same lack is found in the modern revival.
She tells the marvellous history of the family, evoking a vision of the days of courtly love when the Troubadours sang at the feet of the fair princesses.
Since the days of the Troubadours there had been a continuous succession of writers in the various dialects of southern France, but very few of them were men of power and talent.
This was similar to the “Court of Love,” established about the same time, by the troubadours of Provence.
Plaids et Gieux sous l’Ormel=, a society formed by the troubadours of Picardy in the latter half of the twelfth century.
But for the ladies, their troops of troubadours and their "courts of love," Richard had only pleasant words, no more.
I should rather ascribe it to the hyperbolical tone which the Troubadours had borrowed from the Arabians, or to the susceptibility of their temperament.
But many ditties of the troubadours were not so well adapted to the minstrels, who seem to have dealt more with metrical romances.
An excellent idea of the spirit and character of the troubadours and of their songs may be got from Justin H.
The knights play the chief rôle in all the mediæval romances; and, as many of the troubadours belonged to the knightly class, they naturally have much to say of it in their songs.
We have few examples of Provençal before the year 1100, but from that time on, for two centuries, countless songs were written, and many of the troubadours enjoyed an international reputation.
The troubadours and jongleurs traveled from court to court, not only in France, but north into Germany and south into Italy, carrying with them the southern French poetry and customs.
The troubadours and the "courts of love" have gone for ever from Provence, and there is only the carnival celebrations of Nice and Cannes and the other Riviera cities to take their place.
It was at this time, too, that Provençal literature took on that expressive form which set the fashion for the court versifiers of the day, the troubadours and the trouvères of which the old French chronicles are so full.
The speech of the Provençal troubadours was so polished and light that it lent itself readily to verses and dialogues which, for their motives, mostly touched on love and marriage.
The minnesingers of Germany, the troubadours of Provence, had paused in their amorous ditties to compose bitter gibes against the greed and luxurious life of the great Roman prelates.
In the south of France, in the pleasant places of Provence and Languedoc, where troubadours praised love and war, and lords and ladies wandered down primrose paths, the humbler folk got hold of certain dangerous ideas.
Gentlemen and troubadours came from far and near, and all were received and entertained with distinction.
Mathematicians from Granada, philosophers from Alexandria, were as welcome as thetroubadours from Provence.
South Country troubadours assert that love can begin to claim a girl when she is thirteen; she is then eligible for marriage.
The troubadours of the Langeudoc language find now compeers in the trouveres of the northern Languedoil.
The Troubadours were their messengers of the sacred Teaching, which they skilfully concealed in their songs, carrying it from group to group, from sect to sect, in their wanderings.
The minstrels and troubadours were at that time a privileged race in Europe, belonging generally to the south of France, although produced in all lands.
The latter, however, although men without pity or religion, yet held the troubadours in high esteem, and the travellers without fear entered the gloomy shades of the forest.
Troubadours then, as now, were in high esteem in the south, and I was at once made a welcome guest.
Troubadours were licensed folk, and even in her father's presence there was nought unseemly in my singing songs of love.
Thibaud was of a gallant temperament, priding himself upon his knightly accomplishments, but not less upon his talent as a poet; for he was one of those imitators of the troubadours whom we might almost class with the troubadours themselves.
Yet the troubadoursas a class belong to the nobility.
Even before the death of their patroness the glories of the troubadours were fading.
We have seen in the case of the troubadours something of the nature of the extravagant amorous devotion avowed for his lady by the knightly poet.
In the loves of the troubadours one is constantly encountering stories not less immoral though less tragic than this one, as we may see in the story of the Lady de Miravals.
One of the most amusing of the anecdotes of the troubadours is that telling how Marie de Ventadour got rid of the attentions of Gaucelm Faidit.
This congregation, as well as the others under Count Raymond, whom the troubadours called the Good Duke, lived under most happy conditions, and were promoted to offices of state.
But the Romances and the Pastourelles stand apart from these, and both are recognised by authorities among the troubadours themselves as specially northern forms.
The Italian literature of the Middle Ages is intimately associated with the literature of the Troubadours in the south of France.
Though written by both Troubadours and Trouvères, the latter were far superior in style and invention, and it is mostly their work which has survived.
That kings and princes did not disdain to become Troubadours is proved by the example of Richard of England and the Dauphin of Auvergne.
That the love of the Troubadours was none too permanent is indicated by the statement, "A moderate presumption is sufficient to justify one lover in entertaining grave suspicions of the other.
We may find the Troubadoursdefinitely established there in the early part of the twelfth century.
The evening tribute of the Arabian minstrels to their chosen loves became the serenade, while the Troubadours went still further in this vein by originating the aubade, or morning song.
The atmosphere of refinement brought into the rude life of the castle by the Troubadours is more than offset by the domestic infelicity they caused.
A more tragic fate awaited the Troubadours of Provence, the home of the art.
The rise of the Troubadours is due wholly to Oriental influences.
So successful were theTroubadours in using it that sometimes their compositions were over a hundred lines in length.
The Troubadoursat times treated subjects far different from the usual short lyrics or long romances.
Less highly gifted than theTroubadours were the Jongleurs, who composed their retinue.
The songs of the Troubadours were in many cases taken directly from Eastern models.
The castles of the minstrel knights, once the home of beauty and song, were razed to the ground, and the Troubadours were blotted from the page of history.
The influence of the Troubadours was to be felt in Italy, and before the end of the {11} Thirteenth Century there were many writers of short poems that deserve a place in what is best in literature.
The translation we have chosen is that made by Roscoe who has rendered a number of the songs of the Troubadours into English verse that presents an excellent equivalent of the original.
Occasionally the Troubadours indulge in religious poetry though usually not of a mystical or profoundly devotional character.
Mr. Chaytor then quotes the well known lines from Bernart de Ventadorn, one of the Troubadours to whom Dante refers, and whose works Dante seems to have read with special attention since their poems contain similar errors of mythology.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "troubadours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
