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Occitan literature (referred to in older texts as Provençal literature) is a body of texts written in Occitan, mostly in the south of France. It was the first literature in a Romance language and inspired the rise of vernacular literature throughout medieval Europe. Occitan literature's Golden Age was in the 12th century, when a rich and ...
t. e. A troubadour ( English: / ˈtruːbədʊər, - dɔːr /, French: [tʁubaduʁ] ⓘ; Occitan: trobador [tɾuβaˈðu] ⓘ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word troubadour is etymologically masculine, a female equivalent is usually called a trobairitz .
v. t. e. Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, Medieval literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. The material and cultural conditions in France and associated territories around the year 1100 ...
Provençal. Provençal ( / ˌprɒvɒ̃ˈsɑːl /, also UK: /- sæl /, [ 4] US: / ˌproʊ -, - vən -/; Occitan: provençau or prouvençau [pʀuvenˈsaw]) is a variety of Occitan, [ 5][ 6] spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme and Gard. The term Provençal used to refer to the entire Occitan language, but more recently it has referred ...
Marie de France. Marie de France ( fl. 1160–1215) was a poet, possibly born in what is now France, who lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an unknown court, but she and her work were almost certainly known at the royal court of King Henry II of England. Virtually nothing is known of her life; both her given ...
Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) [ 2 ] is a language within the Gallo-Romance family, originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy . Franco-Provençal has several distinct dialects and is separate from but closely related to neighbouring Romance dialects (the langues d'oïl and ...
I love that this is a traditional preparation from Provence, yet it still feels so modern. This recipe is the perfect, light, family-style appetizer. All of the work can be done ahead as well.
The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...