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Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. The troubadours, trouvères, and the minnesänger are known for composing their lyric poetry about courtly love usually accompanied by an instrument. [1] Among the most famous of secular poetry is Carmina Burana, a manuscript collection of 254 poems.
The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture.. The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', [a] from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') [1] is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. [2]
The new poetic (as well as musical: some of the earliest medieval music has lyrics composed in Old French by the earliest composers known by name) tendencies are apparent in the Roman de Fauvel in 1310 and 1314, a satire on abuses in the medieval church filled with medieval motets, lais, rondeaux and other new secular forms of poetry and music ...
Sir Launfal is a 1045-line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating from the late 14th century. [1] It is based primarily on the 538-line Middle English poem Sir Landevale, [2] which in turn was based on Marie de France's lai Lanval, written in a form of French understood in the courts of both England and France in the 12th century.
Category: Medieval poetry. ... The Wallace (poem) The Wife of Auchtermuchty; Y. Yudhishthiravijayam This page was last edited on 11 March 2022, at 17:14 (UTC) ...
Ismailnameh an epic poem on shah Ismail I heroic deeds by Qsimi Qunabadi nephew of Hatifi (1513) Orlando Furioso (Italian) by Ludovico Ariosto (1516) Theuerdank and Weisskunig (Weisskunig only got published in 1775 [3]) by Maximilian I and Marx Treitzsaurwein, often considered the last medieval epics. [4] [5] Davidiad (Latin) by Marko Marulić ...
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