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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 written in a Romance language and inspired the rise of vernacular literature throughout medieval Europe.
The Boecis (original name: Lo poema de Boecis, Occitan: [lu puˈɛmɒ ðe βuˈesis], Catalan: [lu puˈɛmə ðə βuˈesis]; [1] "The poem of Boethius") is an anonymous fragment written around the year 1000 CE in the Limousin dialect of Old Occitan, currently spoken only in southern France. Of the hundreds or possibly thousands of original ...
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The seven-pointed star of the Félibrige on the flag of Occitania, above and to the right of the central Occitan cross. Le Félibrige was founded at the Château de Font-Ségugne (located in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, Vaucluse) on 21 May 1854 (Saint Estelle's day), by seven young Provençal poets: Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra, Anselme Mathieu, Frédéric Mistral, Joseph Roumanille ...
Originating in the Provence region of present-day France, Occitan literature spread through the tradition of the troubadours in the High Middle Ages. The tornada became a hallmark of the language's lyric poetry tradition which emerged c. 1000 in a region called Occitania that now comprises parts of modern-day France, Italy and Catalonia ...
Flamenca (Occitan pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋka]) is a 13th-century anonymous romance, written in the Occitan language in Occitania. Most literary allusions in the text are from Old French sources. The author
La Roubinsouna Prouvençalo (La Robinsona porvençala in classical Occitan) is a very important novel in Occitan literature which was written in the provençal dialect from the Var department. The novel deals with a group of Provençal who reconstruct their civilization after a shipwreck on an island in the Pacific Ocean .
This is a list of troubadours and trobairitz, men and women who are known to have composed lyric verse in the Old Occitan language. They are listed alphabetically by first name. Those whose first name is uncertain or unknown are listed by nickname or title, ignoring any initial definite article (i.e., lo, la). All entries are given in Old ...