Troubadour

Composer and performer of lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages

A troubadour (French: [tʁubaduʁ] ; Occitan: trobador [tɾuβaˈðu]) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word troubadour is etymologically masculine, a female equivalent is usually called a trobairitz. The troubadour school or tradition began in the late 11th century in Occitania, but it subsequently spread to the Italian and Iberian Peninsulas.

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