Troubadour

Question 1

Troubadour

Answer 1

A poet - Lived in southern france and northern spain; spoke Occitan. 1090-1285.
Modern descendents, Catalan.

Question 2

Trouvere

Answer 2

A poet. - Lived in Northern France and England: Medieval French. 1170-1285.

Question 3

Langue d’oc (occitan, provençal)

Answer 3

French Language

Question 4

Langue d’oïl

Answer 4

Northern half of France

Question 5

Courtly love (fin amours)

Answer 5

Unattainable women

Question 6

Pastorela

Answer 6

an Occitane lyric genre by troubadours about a shepherdess and a knight

Question 7

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Answer 7

Inherited all of Aquitaines lands; very powerful woman. Married the king of France, Louis VII(?). Moved north, and troubadours moved with her. Divorces after 15 years, and then becomes queen of England. Troubadours (Trouveres?) follow her.

Question 8

Bernart de Ventadorn

Answer 8

A troubadour that wrote courtly love songs. Moved with Eleanor.

Question 9

Richard I (the Lionheart)

Answer 9

Eleanor’s son. Spoke poetry, was a troubadour in oxitane, a trouvere when writing in french. Wrote Je nuns hons pris ne dira. (1192-1194)

Question 10

Minnesingers

Answer 10

Minnesang, minnelied (German troubadours basically)

Question 11

Walter von der Vogelweide

Answer 11

wrote Palastinalied. Crusader seeing palestine.

Question 12

Cantigas de Santa Maria

Answer 12

Written by Alfonso the Wise. Religious, but in the language of the people. Gallician Portuges