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Troubadour
Poet-musician of Provence and southern France in the 12th–13th centuries. The troubadours originated a type of lyric poetry devoted to themes of courtly love and the idealization of women and to glorifying the chivalric ideals of the period. Little is known of their music, which was passed down orally.
Among the troubadours were Bertran de Born (1140–c. 1215), who was mentioned by Dante, Arnaut Daniel, and Bernard de Ventadour. The trouvères were a similar class of poet-musicians active during the same period in northern France and England. The troubadour tradition had a parallel in the German Minnesingers.
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