Minne may be in origin, the Middle High German for remembrance , see Minni courtly love in Middle High German courtly tradition Frau Minne , a personification of romantic love in German courtly tradition See also Minnesang disambig fr Minne ... more details
Bernart de Tot lo mon was a troubadour and jongleur , probably active at the court of Count Henry II of Rodez 1274 1304 . HIs nickname means of all the world according to Alfred Jeanroy , he was probably from Bruniquel in the Quercy . Three pieces by Bernart have survived. Be m agrada.l temps de pascor is a cross between a canso d amors and a sirventes . Its final stanza is a moral condemnation of worldly decadence, but the tone of the whole is unfailingly Courtly love courtly . The text of this piece is poorly preserved, and the penultimate stanza is almost entirely lost. Lo plazers qu als plazens plai is a plazer or, according to Istv n Frank, a sirventes . It is dedicated to Count Bernard VI of Comminges r. 1241 95 and Count Bernard III of Astarac r. 1249 91 . Mals fregz s es els rics crois mes is another sirventes with courtly characteristics. Its metre is borrowed from Be volgra midons saubes by Arnaut Plagues . References http w3.uniroma1.it bedt BEdT 03 20 index.aspx Bibliografia Elettronica dei Trovatori, v. 2.0 . Retrieved 7 October 2011. Category Troubadours ... more details
Caullery may refer to Caullery , a commune of the Nord department in northern France Louis de Caullery ca. 1580 1621 , a pioneer of the genre of courtly gatherings in Flemish painting of the 17th century Maurice Caullery 1868 1958 , a French biologist surname Caullery disambiguation ceb Caullery eo Caullery fr Caullery it Caullery nl Caullery pl Caullery sr Caullery ... more details
Orphan date December 2010 Galaor was a hero of Spanish romance . The brother of Amadis de Gaul , Galaor was the model of a courtly paladin and was always ready with his sword to avenge the wrongs of widows and orphans. See also portal Novels Galaor comics Galaor , a comic book hero from Hexagon Comics References Nuttall http www.sacred texts.com neu lrs lrs05.htm Stories about Galaor Category Arthurian characters lit char stub ... more details
Refimprove date July 2007 File Carlota by Graefel.jpg thumb right 270px Painting of the Empress Carlota c 1860, by Albert Gr fle 1807 1889 A princess lointaine or princesse lointaine , in French language French , distant princess is a stock character from medieval Romance heroic literature romance s. The Courtly love romantic interest of many knight errant knights errant , she was usually a woman of much higher birth, often far distant from the knight, and usually wealthier than he was, beautiful, and of admirable character. Some knights had, indeed, fallen in love with the princess owing to hearing descriptions of her, without seeing her, as tales said Jaufr Rudel had fallen in love with Hodierna of Tripoli . The term has been used subsequently to refer to women whose chief characteristic as love interest s has been their unattainability. In the analysis of Courtly Love at times, the lady could be a princesse lointaine, a far away princess, and some tales told of men who had fallen in love with women whom they had never seen, merely on hearing their perfection described, but normally she was not so distant. As the etiquette of courtly love became more complicated, the knight might wear the colors of his lady where blue or black were sometimes the colors of faithfulness, green could be a sign of unfaithfulness. Salvation, previously found in the hands of the priesthood, now came from the hands of one s lady . Princesse Lointaine is also the title of a play by Edmond Rostand and a Prelude music prelude for orchestra by Nikolai Tcherepnin . Examples Little Red Haired Girl in Peanuts Maid Marian in some versions of the Robin Hood story Dulcinea Dulcinea del Toboso from Don Quixote Beatrice Portinari from Divina Commedia Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby Emmo from Slave of the Huns Miranda from The Collector The woman in Panama in Cup of Gold novel Cup of Gold See also Girl next door Unrequited love Courtly Love Domnei Stock characters Category Stock characters sr P ... more details
troubadours and trobairitz . Bibliography Andreas Capellanus The Art of Courtly Love , trans. John ... of Courtly Love. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1994. Don Monson Andreas Capellanus, Scholasticism, and the Courtly Tradition. Washington, D.C., 2005. Donald K. Frank Naturalism and the troubadour ... more details
Image Fabritio Caroso.gif thumb right Fabritio Caroso, a woodcut from Il Ballarino . Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta 1526 1535 1605 1620 was an Italian Renaissance dance Renaissance choreographer dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music. His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobilt di Dame , printed in 1600 and again after his death in 1630. The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance by Julia Sutton. ref cite web url http www.amazon.com dp 0486286193 title Courtly Dance of the Renaissance A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dame 1600 accessdate 2010 11 05 publisher http www.amazon.com www.amazon.com ref Both manuals have been printed in facsimile edition. Many of the dances of Fabritio Caroso s manuals are meant for two dancers with a few for four or more dancers. These manuals offer a great deal of information to dance historians and musicologists alike in that each description of a dance is accompanied by music examples with lute tablature and directions about how each music example is to be played. Many of the dances also contain dedications to noble women of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Bibliography Caroso, Fabritio. Courtly Dance of the Renaissance A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilt di Dame 1600 . Edited and translated by Julia Sutton. New York Dover Publications, 1995 See also Italian folk dance Notes reflist External links http www.pbm.com lindahl caroso Caroso s Il Ballarino http www.pbm.com lindahl caroso2 Caroso s Nobilt di Dame IMSLP id Caroso, Fabritio Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Caroso, Fabritio ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caroso da Sermoneta, Fabritio SHORT DESCRIPTION Italian Renaissance dancing master DATE OF BIRTH 1526 1535 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1605 1620 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Caroso, Fabritio Category 16th century births Category 17th century deaths Category People from ... more details
Merge to Courtly Love date December 2011 Domnei or donnoi is an Old Occitan Old Proven al term meaning the attitude of chivalrous devotion of a knight to his Lady , which was mainly a non physical and non marital relationship. Image Edmund blair leighton accolade.jpg thumb right 270px The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton , painted in 1901, clearly expresses the concept of Domnei Principles This type of relationship was highly ritualized and complex but was generally considered to be non physical. In discussing the history of Proven al Poetry Occitan literature , Claude Charles Fauriel asserts He who wants to fully possess his lady knows nothing of donnoi . ref Fauriel, C. Histoire de la Poesie provencale. Paris, 1846. ref Guilhem de Montanhagol 1233 1268 , a Proven al troubadour , declared E d amor mou castitaz , or, From love comes chastity . The chevalier s devotion to his lady functioned by his servitude to her both in terms of his code of conduct and courtly duties. Chivalry as a code, as indicated by the concepts of Courtly Love and the quality of Domnei, necessitated in theory as in practice a level of devotion to the lady, or high mistress, that went beyond mere professionalism and graciousness in etiquette. Truth and honesty were core virtues, and therefore, a knight s actions were to stem from honorable intentions, sincere motives, and purity of heart. Therefore, in matters of the heart, courtly love wasn t always plausibly separable or indistinguishable from that of romantic love . However, by Eros , by Cupid s arrow, the object of a knight s affections may have resided elsewhere outside of his formal duties to his lady. In some instances, the lady was chosen, as in assigned to a knight by happenstance, whereby direct interaction may have been unlikely. As a princesse ... of courtly love and Domnei were to persevere out of a chivalrous sense of loyalty and devotion for a knight ... links http books.google.com books?id iUgTOsrSr7YC Domnei Google Books See also Courtly love Chivalry ... more details
Courtesy comes from old French courteis 12th century is gentleness gentle politeness and court royal courtly manners . In the Middle Ages in Europe, the behaviour expected of the gentry was compiled in courtesy book s. One of the most influential of these was The Book of the Courtier Il Cortegiano The Courtier which not only covered basic etiquette and decorum but also provided models of sophisticated conversation and intellectual skill. ref citation url http books.google.co.uk books?id rQINrHtwNU0C&pg PA249 title The Cambridge guide to literature in English author Dominic Head chapter courtesy book ref In medieval India too, nobility and royal family royalty were expected to display courteous behaviour. The concept was described by the Sanskrit word, daksinya , which meant kindness and consideration expressed in a sophistication sophisticated and elegance elegant way . ref citation url http books.google.co.uk books?id 9BKW65Yt65wC&pg PA135 title Courtly culture and political life in early medieval India author Daud Ali chapter The spirit of courtesy ref See also Civic virtue References reflist Category Human behavior Category Etiquette anthropology stub de H flichkeit ... more details
over multiple constituent states, such as a federal judge . Courtly titles have no sovereign ... local church Archduchess or Archduke German Ceremonial executive Hereditary Courtly supranational ... Aspet Armenia n Executive Hereditary Courtly Imperial consorts of Tang China Assistant in Virtue Tang Dynasty Ceremonial Appointed Courtly Professor United States and Canada Assistant Professor American ... Appointed Courtly Ayatollah Persia n Judicial Appointed based on studies at a hawza Personal Military ... Ceremonial Identified Courtly personal Baron or Baroness Old French French Executive Hereditary ... Courtly Bishop Christian Executive Appointed Provincial Diocese diocesan Beatification Blessed Latin Ceremonial Appointed Supernatural Begum Turkish people Turkish Ceremonial Appointed Courtly personal ... Appointed Courtly Caliph Arabic Executive Elected hereditary Supranational Captain land European Executive ... Courtly Chanyu Xiongnu Executive Hereditary Tribal Chhatrapati Marathi language Marathi Executive Hereditary ... Attendant Tang Dynasty Ceremonial Appointed Courtly Comes Italy Latin Ceremonial Appointed identified Courtly supernatural Commissioner of Baseball MLB Commissioner of Baseball Amero Canadian Executive ... Personal Imperial consorts of Tang China Consort Tang Dynasty Ceremonial Appointed Courtly Consul ... executive judicial Appointed Courtly Chinese titles Medicine D ifu Great Man China Chinese Ceremonial ... Ceremonial Appointed Courtly Military rank Dilochit s Greece Greek Executive Appointed Divisional ... Hereditary Courtly national Ecumenical Patriarch Greece Greek Ceremonial judicial Elected? Supranational ... Egypt ian Ceremonial Appointed Courtly Faqih Arabic Judicial Appointed Institutional Sharia Fellow ... Appointed Courtly Hadrat Arabic Ceremonial Identified Personal Imperial consorts of Tang China Handsome Fairness Tang Dynasty Ceremonial Appointed Courtly Haty a Egypt ian Executive Appointed? Local ... Regional Her His Your Royal and noble styles Highness European Ceremonial Hereditary Courtly Her His ... more details
The Marzubannama Book of the Margrave by Sa ad ad Din Varavini is a collection of 10th century fables in Persian language Persian dialect, translated into Arabic around 1220. The text survives in an illustrated manuscript dating to 1299 Ilkhanid period, MS 216 in the Archaeology Museum Library, Istanbul . It contains the earliest extant depictions of Muhammad representation of Muhammad in a Persian manuscript, predating the cycle of MS Arab 161 by a decade. References Komaroff and Carboni, The Legacy of Genghis Khan Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256 1353 . New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2002, fig. 200. Category 13th century books Category Fables Category Literary illuminated manuscripts Category Persian mythology Category Depictions of Muhammad ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Pere d Abella was a 15th century Catalan people Catalan poet. He is the author of Pus aix t plau ta bandera estendre It pleases your flag to fly , in which he expresses the conventions of troubadour courtly love love . ref Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana, 2008 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Abella, Pere ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Abella, Pere Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category 15th century writers Category Catalan poets poet stub ... more details
saved book title Love subtitle cover image Redheart.png cover color wildbot Love Main article Love Basic Aspects Chemical basis for love Charity virtue Charity Human bonding Historically Courtly love Greek love Religious views on love Types of emotion Eroticism Erotic love Platonic love Storge Familial love Romance love Romantic love See also Puppy love Unrequited love Love sickness Interpersonal relationship Human sexuality Sexual intercourse Valentine s Day Category Wikipedia books on psychology Love ... more details
The Mlokhim Bukh English Book of Kings is a Yiddish religious verse Epic poetry epic by an unknown author, which recounts the monarchy of Solomon and the ancient history of the Hebrews up to the Babylonian Captivity . The oldest surviving fragment is dated to 1519 1525, though the poem is probably older. Its stanzaic form resembles that of the Nibelungenlied . The poem fuses Biblical material, Midrash Midrashic legends, and rabbinical folklore with European courtly poetry, and belongs to the genre of the Ashkenazic national epic, comparable to other European epic poems, such as the Nibelungenlied and The Song of Roland . However, in contrast to the more chivalry themed Shmuel Bukh , it is more ethical and historical in nature. ref Introduction to Old Yiddish literature By Jean Baumgarten, Jerold C. Frakes ref References references Category Yiddish literature Category Epic poems Category Yiddish folklore Yiddish stub ... more details
and his adherence to the courtly ideals. It is particularly important to recognize the customary nature ... of Interdisciplinary History 4 Spring, 1974 573 575 ref Courtly Love Courtly love or amour courtois ... and Guinevere in Lancelot ou le chevalier de la charrete. Paris defined courtly love principally ... Lancelot s behavior as representative of that within the tradition of courtly love becomes circular ... courts. One side maintains this practice did exist and the other believes that courtly love ... of courtly love . His actions are subordinate to his relationship and indeed, his behaviors are forced .... Les cathares et le Graal . ISBN 10 2708953796 ISBN 13 9782708953796 Hopkins, Andrea. The Book of Courtly .... Lancelot du Lac, II Conte de la charrette. Romania 12 1883 459 534 Burns, E. Jane. Courtly Love ... more details
and he is famous for his handling of the subject of courtly love . ref name Topsfield33 Raimon represents ... Topsfield3536 Topsfield, Raimon de Miraval and the Art of Courtly Love , 35&ndash 36. ref The highest ... 28195601 2951 3A1 3C33 3ARDMATA 3E2.0.CO 3B2 J Raimon de Miraval and the Art of Courtly Love. The Modern ... more details
and Mahabharata . There are three basic types of courtly Javanese kraton dance Citation needed ... , and these dances include courtly dances designed for royal events with very precise movements ... of Javanese palace culture. Kawulo dances is lack in Javanese courtly dance discipline, constraints ... more details
refimprove date November 2011 Image Codex Manesse Neidhart.jpg thumb Neidhart portrayed in the Codex Manesse Neidhart von Reuental possibly born c. 1190 died after 1236 or 1237 ref Dates given in New Grove ref Middle High German N thart von Riuwental also Her N thart was one of the most famous German minnesingers . He was probably active in Bavaria and then is known to have been a singer at the court of Friedrich II in Vienna . As a minnesinger he was most active from 1210 to at least 1236. Neidhart is very well known for being rather sarcastic and comical. More melodies survive by him than from any other minnesinger. His name is most likely a pseudonym, for its meaning is more or less Grim Heart of Lament Valley . The second part of his name, however, was reconstructed by philologists of the 19th century, who took literally the role of the speaker, who calls himself von Reuental in his poems, and thus combined it with the author s name, which was simply N thart . All manuscript sources until the 15th century refer to him only as Nithart . His songs often stand in harsh contrast to the normal minnesinger topic, courtly or romantic love. This style has been referred to as H fische Dorfpoesie courtly village poetry by philologist Karl Lachmann and was often imitated by composers called pseudo Neidharts . Probably his best known song is Meienz t May Time in which Neidhart starts by describing a peaceful spring scenario but quickly comes to insulting his foes and several friends and allies who betrayed him . Notes reflist References Michael Shields, Neidhart N thart von Reuental der von Riuwental in New Grove Music Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2001 Category German composers Category Minnesingers Category 13th century people Category People from Bavaria bg ca Neidhart von Reuental de Neidhart it Neidhart von Reuental hu Neidhart von Reuenthal no Neidhart von Reuental ru , sl Neidhart von Reuenthal fi Neidhart von Reuenth ... more details
Image Safflower.jpg thumb right The suetsumuhana safflower nihongo Suetsumuhana is the archaic Japanese word for the safflower . It is known now as nihongo Benibana . It is also the name of a female character in Murasaki Shikibu s epic novel The Tale of Genji . The sixth chapter of it is named after her. She is also known as the Safflower Princess . In some English translations she appears as Princess Hitachi . Prince Genji was briefly attracted to her, until she lowered her fan to reveal her nose. However, he eventually felt sorry for her and helped support her. The incident with the Safflower Princess s nose has always been a source of comic relief for readers of the Tale of Genji . In the manga comics, the extremely shy princess is always depicted as being quite unattractive, the amorous prince having fallen in love first because of her voice and the way she plays the koto musical instrument koto . The arrangements of her j nihitoe robes were however described as fitting those of an older lady. She was hidden in the beginning behind the sudare Window screen screen , however as part of the courtly Heian period Heian rituals, the 12 layered sleeve s were allowed to peek from under the screen. Based on the colour arrangements, the suitor could see what kind of taste and status his lady had. Modern scholars however speculate that Suetsumuhana s nose, which was described in the Genji as being red and that of an elephant , probably resembles today s European noses. Citation needed date October 2008 The ideal of female beauty in Heian was to have very fine, thin noses, as depicted in the painted scrolls The Tale of Genji Illustrated scroll . Anything that fell outside this courtly beauty ideal must have been seen as utterly obscene . See also portal Novels The Tale of Genji Heian Period External links http webworld.unesco.org genji en part 1 6 31.shtml UNESCO The Tale of Genji. Chapter 6 Suetsumuhana Category The Tale of Genji japan lit stub ja th ... more details
For the group of paintings known by this title, see The Allegory of Love Veronese . The Allegory of Love A Study in Medieval Tradition 1936 in literature 1936 , by C. S. Lewis ISBN 0192812203 , is an influential exploration of the Allegory allegorical treatment of love in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . In the first chapter, Lewis traces the development of the idea of courtly love from the Proven al Troubadour troubadours to its full development in the works of Chr tien de Troyes . It is here that he sets forth a famous characterization of the peculiar form which it courtly love first took the four marks of Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love the last two of which marks have, in particular, been the subject of a good deal of controversy among later scholars. In the second chapter, Lewis discusses the medieval evolution of the allegorical tradition in such writers as Bernard Silvestris and Alain de Lille . The remaining chapters, drawing on the points made in the first two, examine the use of allegory in the depiction of love in a selection of poetic works, beginning with the Roman de la Rose . The focus, however, is on English works the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer , John Gower Gower s Confessio Amantis and Thomas Usk Usk s Testament of Love , the works of Chaucer s epigones, and Edmund Spenser Spenser s The Faerie Queene Faerie Queene . The book is ornamented with quotations from poems in many languages, including Classical Latin Classical and Medieval Latin , Middle English , and Old French . The piquant English language English translations of many of these are Lewis s own work. C. S. Lewis hist book stub Category Books by C. S. Lewis Category Books about literary theory DEFAULTSORT Allegory of Love ru ... more details
Gau s bert Amiel or Gausbertz Amiels was a 13th century Gascony Gascon troubadour . His only surviving song Canso song canso is Breu vers per tal que meins y poing , a humorous satire of contemporary Courtly love courtly poetry . This lone example of Gausbert s work is well represented in the manuscripts, however, appearing six, labelled A, D, I, K, N, and V. The poem is only ascribed to him in MS D , where a marginal note names Gibert Amiels as the author. Based on the manuscripts, the poem must have been written between 1200 and 1254. All that is known of Gausbert that cannot be gleaned from his poem is found in his Vida Occitan literary form vida , which, however, seem to use, as its primary source, his poem. He is described as a poor knight, courteous and skilled in arms , and he never fell in love with a dame nobler than he . The purpose of his surviving poem is to attack the rics rich men, implying nobility and rank as well as material wealth and their pursuance of younger women, who are poor Gausbert s targets. There are affinities in content with the work of Marcabru . Sources Egan, Margarita ed. and trans. The Vidas of the Troubadours . New York Garland, 1984. ISBN 0 8240 9437 9. Riquer, Mart n de . Los trovadores historia literaria y textos . 3 vol. Barcelona Planeta, 1975. Category Gascons Category Medieval poets Category Occitan poets Category Troubadours Category 13th century French people it Gausbert Amiel ... more details
Guilhem Peire Cazals de Caortz or Guilhem Peire de Cazals was a troubadour of the first half of the thirteenth century. He was born or lived in Cahors , Quercy , from which his name de Caortz . ref This name is only found in troubadour manuscript C . ref Eleven of his works, including one tenso , survive. The only sure way to date Guilhem Peire s life and work is by his tenso with Bernart de la Barta , who was alive in 1229, and by a sirventes of Guilhem Figueira , Un nou sirventes ai en cor que trameta , composed in 1240, which mirrors D una leu chanso ai cor que m entremeta , a Canso song canso by Guilhem Peire, in metre and rhyme and therefore gives a terminus ante quem for the tenso s composition. Nine of Guilhem Peire s poems are dedicated to a certain friend and jongleur known only by the affectionate Pseudonym senhal Ardit . ref Senhal is Occitan for signal or sign . Ardit appears in the Tornadas tornada of Be.m plagr ueymays qu ab vos dona, .m valgres A mon Ardit que mos cantars romansa. ref Generally he wrote in the trobar ric genre, and in his leu chanso canso in the trobar leu , referred to above he mentions using words are opposite to the Courtly love courtly norm to describe the lover that abandoned him that. Guilhem Peire was also one of the earliest poets to adopt the sestina form of Arnaut Daniel his Eras, pus vey mon benastruc imitates the Arnaut s mots refranh . In it the poet is rather optimistic because his lady has shown him favour. Notes reflist Sources Riquer, Mart n de . Los trovadores historia literaria y textos . 3 vol. Barcelona Planeta, 1975. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Guilhem Peire Cazals De Caortz ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION troubadour DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH Cahors , Quercy , Spain DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Peire Cazals De Caortz, Guilhem Category Medieval poets Category Occitan poets Category Troubadours Category 13th century French people it Guilhem Peire Cazals de Caortz ... more details
For the American spoken word poet Sarah Kay poet Sarah Kay is a professor of French at New York University . Kay was a student in the UK at the University of Oxford . She started her teaching career at the University of Liverpool then moved to the University of Cambridge . She was head of department at Cambridge from 1996 until 2001 and Director of Studies at Girton College, Cambridge from 2003 to 2005. Kay has been a fellow of the British Academy since 2004 and was awarded a D.Litt Cambridge in 2005. ref http medieval studies.rutgers.edu events kay.html Accessed 7th September 2008 ref Publications Slavoj i ek i ek A Critical Introduction Cambridge Polity, 2003 with Malcolm Bowie and Terence Cave A Short History of French Literature Oxford University Press, 2003 Courtly Contradictions Stanford University Press, 2001 with Simon Gaunt The Troubadour s. An Introduction Cambridge University Press, 1999 The Chansons de geste in the Age of Romance Oxford University Press, 1995 as co editor with Miri Rubin Framing Medieval Bodies Manchester University Press, 1994 as editor Raoul de Cambrai Oxford University Press, 1992 Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry Cambridge University Press, 1990 References Reflist added above External links Sources by script assisted edit External links http web.princeton.edu sites fit faculty kay.html Kay s profile at Princeton University http www.alexandreleupin.com roundtables Kay.htm Review of Kay s Courtly Contradictions published in The Medieval Review , 2004. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kay, Sarah ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kay, Sarah Category Fellows of the British Academy Category Literary critics of French Category Living people Category Alumni of the University of Oxford Category Academics of the University of Cambridge Category Princeton University faculty Category Year of birth missing living people UK academic bio stub ... more details
Moniot de Paris fl. post 1250 was a trouv re and probably the same person as the Monniot who wrote the Dit de fortune in 1278. He was once thought to have flourished around 1200, but his dates have been pushed back. Moniot wrote nine surviving pieces three pastourelle s , one chanson de rencontre , one chanson de la malmari e , and four enigmatic rotrouenge s that are not of the grand chant variety. Throughout, his work represents a blurring of the traditional boundaries between genres. One modern scholar, J. Frappier, has gone so far as to identify in him a new conception of courtly love une courtoisie embourgeois e a bourgeoisie courtliness . Moniot represents a low style or less refined lyricism . His themes, both lyric and musical, are light in tone. He uses refrain s such as the onomatopoeic Vadu, vadu, vadu, va in nearly all his works and his melodies are simple in the extreme, with repeated notes, repeated phrases, and small intervals. These melodies were popular nonetheless Moniot reused one and four of them have later contrafacta . Poems A une ajournee Au nouvel or nouviau tens que nest la violete Je chevauchoie l autrier L autrier par un matinet Li tens qui reverdoie Lonc tens ai mon tens us Pour mon cuer releecier Quant je oi chanter l alouete Qui veut amours maintenir References Falck, Robert. http www.oxfordmusiconline.com subscriber article grove music 18958 Moniot de Paris. Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online . Accessed 14 August 2008. O Neill, Mary 2006 . Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France Transmission and Style in the Trouv re Repertoire . Oxford Oxford University Press. See Songs of Moniot de Paris , pp. 135&ndash 52. Category Trouv res it Moniot de Paris ... more details
John Rolland floruit fl. 1560 , Scotland Scottish poet , appears to have been a priest of the diocese of Glasgow , and to have been known in Dalkeith in 1555. He is the author of two poems, the Court of Venus and a translation of the Seven Wise Masters . The former, which was printed by John Ros in 1575, may have been written before 1560. The latter was translated from a Scots prose version at the suggestion of an aunt ane proper wenche , who had found his treatment of the courtly allegory involved and uninteresting. The Court of Venus was edited by Walter Gregor for the S.T.S. in 1884. See W. A. Craigie s long list of corrections of that edition in the Modern Language Quarterly March 1898 . The Seven Sages was printed in 1578, and frequently during the earlier decades of the 17th century. It was reprinted by David Laing Scottish antiquary David Laing for the Bannatyne Club 1837 . Robert Sibbald , in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry iii. 287 , hinted that Rolland may be the author of the Thrie Priestis of Peblis though no other evidence has been found to support this claim. 1911 Category Scottish poets Rolland, John ... more details
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