Trouvere

Word TROUVERE
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In Northern France the poet was called a trouvere, in Provence a troubadour, in Germany a minnesinger. ❋ Porter Lander MacClintock (1906)

My favourite character was the fictional troubadour strictly speaking a trouvere, as he tells us, since he comes from the north of France Bernard de Sezanne. ❋ Carla (2009)

Fountainlike gyrations earned the free trouvere the name of master, ❋ Unknown (2007)

Walter Scott, the modern trouvere, was then giving a gigantic vogue to a kind of composition unjustly called secondary. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He remembered a trouvere at a feast singing of how the Greeks went to war because Helen, wife of one of their kings, ran off with Paris, prince of Troy. ❋ Robert Shea (1963)

We find that Tallifer the Norman trouvere, who accompanied William to the invasion of England, went before his hosts at Hastings, reciting the Norman prowess and might, and flung himself upon the Saxon phalanx where he met his doom. ❋ John Jenkins (N/A)

Legrand's and Barbasan's collections, especially the trouvere Dutant's ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)

Walter Scott, the modern _trouvere_, was then giving a gigantic vogue to a kind of composition unjustly called secondary. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)

We read that the example of the trouvere aroused the Norman hosts to an enthusiasm which precipitated them upon the Saxon ranks with unwonted courage and frenzy. ❋ John Jenkins (N/A)

Gottfried cites as his source the poem of the trouvere Thomas of Brittany, of which only a few fragments are extant. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This subject was made especially popular by the versions of the French trouvere, Chrestien de Troyes, who exerted great influence on the German courtly epic. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Ranulph was still in riding-dress, and might have been mistaken for a joglar or wandering minstrel, calling himself by the more dignified title of troubadour or trouvere. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)

A troubadour or trouvere was a poet who sang his own compositions to his own music. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)

This picturesque poet -- gleeman, trouvere or troubadour sang heroic stories and romances of love in the halls of castles and in the market places of towns. ❋ Porter Lander MacClintock (1906)

The distinction between trouvere or troubadour and jongleur is not always to be sharply drawn. ❋ Porter Lander MacClintock (1906)

The best of them are the love stories, and of these the most beautiful is "Aucassin and Nicolette", by an unknown trouvere of the thirteenth century. ❋ Porter Lander MacClintock (1906)

Sometimes in France and Provence the same poet composed his verses and sang them -- was both trouvere or troubadour and jongleur; while in Germany the minnesingers were generally both poets and minstrels. ❋ Porter Lander MacClintock (1906)

Shakespeare, Petrarch, Cervantes -- she had read them all; and even Wace, the old Norman trouvere, whose Roman de Rou she knew almost by heart. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

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