The Trobairitz
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The Trobairitz
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The Trobairitz. The Origins of the Trobairitz. 1170 – 1260 Occitania Provençal Role of women. William IX, Duke of Aquitaine. Born October 22, 1071 First known Troubadour Popularized the use of vernacular Relationship with the Church Grandfather to Eleanor Died February 10, 1126. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Trobairitz
The Origins of the Trobairitz
1170 – 1260
Occitania
Provençal
Role of women
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
Born October 22, 1071
First known Troubadour
Popularized the use of vernacular
Relationship with the Church
Grandfather to Eleanor
Died February 10, 1126
Fin’ AmorsOccitan Courts
Possible InfluencesArabic poetryClassical LatinCult of the Virgin
Mary
Love in Chivalric terms
Women and Fin' AmorsMarried, Noble
Ladies
Venerated the Lady
Idealized love
Submissive
Possible Motives
Who Are the Trobairitz?
Ladies of the courts
Patrons
Subjects of their male counterparts’ poems
Tune byCountess of Dia
TroubadoursDiverse social
classesDukes and KnightsLower classes
Took on personasDefended ideals of
fin’ amorsSymbolic value in
their Ladies
LadiesSubject of poemsPatrons
Wrote in 1st person singular
Skepticism about courtly love
Concrete understanding of their worth
Trobairitz and TroubadoursTrobairitz
Types of Trobairitz Poetry
Chanson
Tenson
Sirventes
Lives of the Trobairitz
Difficulties with histories
Vidas
Razos
Attribution and Manuscripts
Countess of Dia
Most prolific surviving female troubadour
Beatrice?Four chansonOnly surviving work
with musicBetrayed loverKeeps her prideEnds with a warning
Bieiris de Romans
Trobairitz writing about another woman
Unique in Occitan poetry
Possible interpretations
Decline of the Trobairitz
Albigensian Crusade
Cathars and Waldensians
Heretical Poetry
Evolution of fin’ amors
Gormonda de Monpeslier
Only Sirventes
1226 – 1229
Defends Albigensian Crusade
