trouvère

To such a society the strongly realistic Carolingian epic had ceased to appeal: the tales of the Welsh and Breton bards, repeated by trouvère and jongleur, troubadour and minnesinger, came as a revelation.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Vernon Lee

Lastly, Walther von der Vogelweide appears to have been actually a "working poet," as we may say—a trouvère, who sang his own poems as he wandered about, and whose surname was purely a decorative one.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

The first three poems are in French, of the well-known and by this time far from novel trouvère character, of which those of Thibaut of Champagne are the best specimens.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

It is essentially a comic opera; but that a trouvère of the thirteenth century should by himself, so far as we can see, have founded comic opera is not a small thing.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

Chrétien, or Chrestien, de Troyes, a French poet or trouvère of the last half of the 12th century; author of a number of vigorously written romances connected with chivalry and the Round Table.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

It was the trouvères who invented the Chansons de Geste already mentioned—songs of action; in other words, ballads.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

The trouvères chose Charlemagne and his paladins as the heroes of their poems and romances, and these, composed for the most part in French in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were early circulated in Italy.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta

The Anglo-Norman trouvères arranged these tales in graduated circles around their nucleus, the legend of the Holy Grail.

From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Some productions of the trouvères may fairly be allowed an elevation of aim and of treatment entitling them to be called epic in character.

From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson

A collection of Indian tales, translated into Latin in the tenth or eleventh century, was the first storehouse of the trouvères.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta