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101minnesinger — /min euh sing euhr/, n. one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries. [1815 25; < G, equiv. to Minne love + Singer singer] * * * (from German, Minne: love ) Any of certain German poet musicians, с 1150–с… …
102Chaucer, Geoffrey — born с 1342/43, London?, Eng. died Oct. 25, 1400, London English poet. Of middle class birth, he was a courtier, diplomat, and civil servant, trusted by three kings in his active and varied career, and a poet only by avocation. His first… …
103Southeast Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The classical literatures of Southeast Asia can be divided into three major regions: the Sanskrit region of… …
104country dance — or contredanse Type of social dance for couples, popular in the 17th century. Derived from English folk dance, the country dance is performed in one of three forms: circular or round; longways, with rows of couples facing each other; and… …
105Daniel von dem blühenden Tal — (Daniel of the Flowering Valley) is an Arthurian romance composed around 1220 by the Middle High German poet Der Stricker,[1] who claimed he had received the story from a French troubadour. It tells how Sir Daniel, heir to the kingdom of… …
106Burkhart von Hohenfels — (early 13th century) This poet is mentioned in numerous historical documents between 1212 and 1242 as a member of a south German family of lower nobility (ministeriales) from the area of Lake Constance. He seems to have been in the service of… …
107Eleanor of Aquitaine — (ca. 1122–1204) Both admired and maligned, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most influential and powerful queens in the entire Middle Ages. Born ca. 1122 in Poitiers or Belin near Bordeaux as the daughter of Duke William X of Aquitaine, she …
108Erec and Enide — by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1170) The first of five extant Arthurian ROMANCE poems by the French poet CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES, Erec and Enide is a sophisticated poetic narrative thought to be one of the earliest romances of Arthur in the courtly… …
109Hartmann von Aue — (ca. 1160–ca. 1210) The Southwest German (Allemanic) poet Hartmann von Aue introduced the genre of the Arthurian ROMANCE to German literature. He translated, or adapted, CHRÉTIEN DE Troyes’s Old French romance EREC (ca. 1160) into Middle High… …
110Heinrich von Morungen — (ca. 1180–ca. 1220) Historical documents from 1217 and 1218 identify the Middle High German poet Heinrich von Morungen, who was in the service of Margrave Dietrich von Meissen. The famous Manesse manuscript (C; early 14th century) contains a… …
