Back when I was looking at picking a name and persona for the SCA, I was in the middle of a Uni course in
The cultural impact of the 12th Century renaissance, so aimed for thereish. Haven't gone back there for ages - keep getting distracted by new shiney stuff, but have always had a fondness for that time.
Was reminded of that stuff this morning and had a fun trawl through Wikipedia with
Troubadour (including a long
list of them)^1,
Trouvere^2, and
Trobairitz^3. I had forgotten just how much survived, including a little less than 10% of the music for what is extant. Nice to hear "A chantar m'er" - apparently "The only existing song by a trobairitz which survives with music."
It is entertaining as to what some of them got up to - at least according to their vida... which can be variably acccurate.
Guillaume d'Aquitaine was always a fun character eg
this - it explains a bit about his granddaughter Eleanor...
And sorry, you just have to admit that the names are far better than the Anglo-Saxon and Viking female names preceeding.... eg family of
Dalfi d'Alvernha - Jeanne de Calabre, Guillemette de Comborn, Jourdaine of Périgord, and his daughters Aélis, Blanche and Alix.
Though I do have to admit to still prefering the
student (drinking) songs of the time (or slightly later) in terms of actual subject matter - generally contact and consumation as opposed to unrequited lust from afar - appart from Guillaume d'Aquitaine.
^1 Provencal male
^2 Northern France male
^3 Provencal female
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