trouvère
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thumb|Trouvère song in the 13th century Chansonnier du Roi, BnF fr. 844, fol. 5r. The trouvère depicted is Count [[Theobald II of Bar.]]
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- Subclass of
- poet
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- topic's main category
- Category:Trouvères
- Commons category
- Trouvères
- female form of label
- trouveresse
- partially coincident with
- troubadour
- time period
- High Middle Ages
- writing language
- Old French
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- male form of label
- troviero
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Women trouvères
- List of trouvères
- List of chansonniers
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Trouvère song in the 13th century Chansonnier du Roi, BnF fr. 844, fol. 5r. The trouvère depicted is Count [[Theobald II of Bar.]]
Trouvère (, ), sometimes spelled trouveur (, ), is the Northern French (''langue d'oïl) form of the langue d'oc (Occitan) word trobador, the precursor of the modern French word troubadour. Trouvère refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the trobadors, both composing and performing lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages, but while the trobadors composed and performed in Old Occitan, the trouvères used the northern dialects of France. One of the first known trouvères was Chrétien de Troyes ( 1160s–1180s) and the trouvères continued to flourish until about 1300. Some 2130 trouvère poems have survived; of these, at least two-thirds have melodies.
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