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Occitan poetry first appeared in the 11th century. The oldest surviving text is the Provençal burden (Fr. refrain) attached to a 10th-century Latin poem. [2] The text has not yet been satisfactorily interpreted. [3]
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This category covers literature written in Old Occitan. Pages in category "Old Occitan literature" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
A troubadour (English: / ˈ t r uː b ə d ʊər,-d ɔːr /, French: ⓘ; Occitan: trobador [tɾuβaˈðu] ⓘ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).
The trobar ric (Occitan pronunciation: [tɾuˈβa ˈrik]), or rich form of poetry, was a trobadour style. It was distinguished by its verbal gymnastics; its best exponent was Arnaut Daniel. Despite the fact that it outlasted trobar clus, it always played a secondary role to trobar leu.
The Occitan language is still used to varying levels by between 100,000 and 800,000 speakers in southern France and northern Italy. Since 2006, the Occitan language is recognized as one of the official languages in Catalonia , an autonomous region of Spain.
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 ...