When the Albigensian Crusade broke the small courts of Languedoc, troubadours lost their audiences, their patrons...
A practical packing checklist for medieval music festivals, covering instruments, repair kits, layered clothing,...
Seven towns and ruins in southern France where troubadour history actually happened, from Ventadour's castle to...
The spring opening was the troubadours' signature move: birds, leaves and May weather set the stage before the poet...
A step-by-step workshop on writing a troubadour canso: finding a concrete theme, fixing the stanza and rhyme frame,...
A traveling troubadour ate what the road and a patron’s table offered: preserved bread, cheese, bacon, and wine,...
The nightingale sings through troubadour verse more than almost any other bird. Here is what the poets did with it,...
Troubadours sang in Occitan, trouvères in Old French: a guide to their languages, genres, patrons and manuscripts,...
A practical guide to the three central troubadour song forms — canso, sirventes and pastorela — with their...
Daily songs and stories from a troubadour.
