Daily Medieval

About 1181 in Assisi in Umbria, Pica di Bourlemont gave birth to a son. Her husband, the cloth merchant Pietro Bernardone, was in France on ...

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony (1071 - 1127), also Count of Poitiers, had a shaky start in life. He was the son of Duke William V...

Troubadours originally referred to their songs as vers , but over time developed a set of several different specific types of composition. T...

The word " troubadour " was masculine, and the feminine form was "trobairitz" (both singular and plural). The term was r...

In the years 1100 - 1350, a type of musical performer arose called a troubadour. They did not call themselves troubadours; that term was fir...

I mentioned that, for all our talk of courtly love  in the Middle Ages, the only use of the actual phrase was in a single Provençal poem. Th...