Troubadour/Trouvere

Question 1

Troubadour

Answer 1

A poet that lived in southern Aquitaine. France and northern Spain that spoke Occitan; Langue d’oc Existed from 1090-1285. Their modern descendants are the Catalans.

Question 2

Trouvere

Answer 2

A poet - Lived in Nothern France and England; spoke Medieval French. 1170-1285

Question 3

Langue d’oc

Answer 3

Occitain: french language

Question 4

Launge d’oil

Answer 4

Northern half of france

Question 5

Courtly love (fin amours)

Answer 5

Unattainable woman

Question 6

Pastorela

Answer 6

An occitane lyric genre by troubadours about a shepherdess and a knight - battle of wits

Question 7

Eleanor of Aquitaine:

Answer 7

Inherited all of the Aquitaines lands; a very powerful woman. Married the king of france, Louis VII. She moved north and the Troubadours followered her, too, and again after her divorce of 15 years when she becomes queen of England

Question 8

Bernart de Ventadorn

Answer 8

A troubadour that wrote courtly love songs who moved with Eleanor

Question 9

Richard I (the Lionheart)

Answer 9

1192-1194. A descendant of Eleanor. Spoke poetry, was a troubadour in Oxitane, a trouvere when writing in French. Wrote Je Nuns Hons Pris Ne Dira.