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51De amore (Andreas Capellanus) — Andreas Capellanus was the twelfth century author of a treatise commonly titled De amore ( About Love ), also known as De arte honeste amandi, for which a possible English translation is The Art of Courtly Love (though the book s realistic,… …
52French literature — Introduction the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the …
53troubadours — (12th and 13th centuries) In the early 12th century, a group of courtly poets emerged in the south of France (the area known as Provence) composing love songs in Old Occitan. The basic concept of their poetry was the idea of fin’amors: a… …
54Troubadour — A troubadour (IPA: IPA| [tɾuβaˈðuɾ] , originally IPA| [tɾuβaˈðoɾ] ) was a composer and performer of Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100 ndash;1350). The troubadour school or tradition began in the eleventh century in Occitania …
55Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart — by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1176–82) Probably the fourth of the five extant Arthurian verse ROMANCES by the French poet CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES, Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart is thought to have been written sometime close to the writing of… …
56Tristan and Iseult — The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan (Tristram) and the Irish princess Iseult… …
57Peirol — or PeiròlIn Occitan, peir (French pierre ) means stone and ol is a diminutive suffix, the name Peirol being understood as the equivalent of Little Stone but also Petit Pierre (Lil Peter) or Pierrot (Pete or Petey); however, peiròl also meant a… …
58Turkish literature — Introduction the body of written works in the Turkish language. The earliest Turkish literature was produced in Mongol controlled Anatolia during the later 13th century. Among the numerous Turkic dynasties of Central Asia, South Asia …
59German Literature — • History starting with the pre Christian period to 800 A.D Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. German Literature German Literature …
60Ywain and Gawain — (ca. 1325–1350) The one extant copy of the MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCE Ywain and Gawain is found in the British Museum manuscript Cotton Galba E. IX, a large parchment manuscript whose contents range from romance to a verse treatise on the Seven… …
