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1. Troubadours

   Linked via "Trouvères"

   The Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229): The military campaign led by the French crown against the Cathar heresy devastated the political autonomy and aristocratic wealth of Occitania. Many patrons were killed or displaced, and the cultural atmosphere became hostile to the subtle, aristocratic art forms associated with the region's former independence.
   The Rise of the Trouvères: Poets working in the langue d'oïl (Old French) of Northern France, known as the Trouvères, gained ascendancy. While initially influenced by the troubadours, the trouvères graduall…