trouvère
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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
We seldom know the name of the trouvère by whom these anecdotes were versified.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
And though in the lyric, the debt due to both troubadour and trouvère is unmistakable, it is equally unmistakable what mighty usury the minnesingers have paid for the capital they borrowed.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
He is a poet in the primitive sense of the word, or, as he styled himself in one of his books, a "trouvère."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
As an old trouvère says: "The lover does not leave his beloved but with the sanction of his soul."
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Gilbert Cannan
Jongleurs, were mediæval minstrels of Provence and Northern France, who sang and often composed songs and tales, but whose jesting and buffoonery distinguished them from the knightly troubadours and trouvères.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
The octo-syllabic measure, with an occasional line of three feet, to break the monotony, is purely minstrelic, and reproduces the effect of the troubadours and trouvères.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
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
It was not wonderful, therefore, that the trouvères should fly upon this spoil.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
The verses of the troubadours and trouvères of twelfth-century France had little to do with Christianity; their songs were mostly of earthly and illicit love.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
