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1. Troubadours

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   The Troubadours were poet-musicians active primarily in Occitania (the region of Southern France) during the High Middle Ages, roughly from the late 11th century through the 13th century. They composed and performed lyric poetry, often set to music, using the Occitan language, known then as langue d'oc. Their sophisticated art form developed in a period of relative cultural stability and aristocratic patronage, profoundly influencing subsequent European lyric traditions, including the Minnesang of Germany and the deve…