Thousands had joined this new Crusade, which should deal the final blow to Mahommedanism: among the rest came the first of the troubadours, William IX., Count of Poitiers, to gather copy for his muse, and even some, like Stephen of Blois and Hugh of Vermandois, who had joined the First Crusade, but had failed to reach Jerusalem. [Please select]
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Romantic love and deeds of chivalry were the two themes which most inspired the troubadours. [Please select]
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Baring-Gould saw several fairies when he was a boy, and was travelling in the land of the Troubadours. [Please select]
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"Let's pretend that we're a company of troubadours, minnesingers, jongleurs, acrobats and what not, going from one great castle to another."' [Please select]
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The same fierce persecution that uprooted the heretical faith of the Albigenses, also stilled the song of the Troubadours (see p.) [Please select]
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While the compositions of the Troubadours were almost exclusively lyrical songs, those of the Trouveurs were epic, or narrative poems, called _romances_. [Please select]
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It is far more worthy of critical examination than the fantastic love poems of the troubadours. [Please select]
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Troubadours then, as now, were in high esteem in the south, and I was at once made a welcome guest. [Please select]
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Troubadours were licensed folk, and even in her father's presence there was naught unseemly in my singing songs of love. [Please select]
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There was much license of manners, much turbulence; and as the Aquitanians hated Angevin rule, the troubadours never ceased to stir up the sons of Henry II. [Please select]
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