[DOC] [TLE] Troubadour - Wikipedia [PAR] A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during 
the High Middle Ages (11001350). .... There is no preceding Latin poetry 
resembling that of the troubadours. On those grounds, no .... A vida is a brief 
prose biography, written in Occitan, of a troubadour. The word vida means "life" 
..... Languages. [DOC] [TLE] Medieval French literature - Wikipedia [PAR] Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in Ol 
languages ... Languages which developed from dialects of Old French include .... 
From around 1200 on, the tendency was increasingly to write the romances in ... (
Occitan language); in their turn, the Provenal poets were greatly influenced by... [DOC] [TLE] Occitan literature - Wikipedia [PAR] Occitan literature is a body of texts written in Occitan, mostly in the south of 
France. It was the first literature in a Romance language and inspired the rise of 
... The troubadours used a standardized form of Old Occitan (one probably based 
on the ... Their poetry was usually lyrical, with a minority of pieces of satirical, 
political,... [DOC] [TLE] The History of the Languedoc: Occitan and Occitania: The ... [PAR] ... first known Italian poetry and was fluent in other languages. One of his poems 
has a verse in each of Provenal, ... It owes its dance-like character to its origins 
as an ... of writing about him in Provenal (a dialect of Occitan). ... type of 
troubadour song written on the death of a friend... [DOC] [TLE] Languages in Medieval England by Gillian Polack - Trivium Publishing [PAR] What languages did people speak in England in the Middle Ages? ... English (
Anglo-Norman) though people spoke and wrote in other French dialects as well. 
... courts of rulers and with trade, and people brought their native dialects with 
them. ... able to understand Old Occitan, in order to read the poems of the 
troubadours... [DOC] [TLE] troubadour poetry | David A. Wacks [PAR] Jan 28, 2011 ... [Conference Paper] Recycling the Troubadours in Hebrew: Todros Abulafia, 
Hebrew .... of the emergent poetic tradition, by virtue of their romance-language 
nativity. ... In this first example, Bonifacio Calvo, an Italian who wrote in Provencal
, ..... Arabic poetry written in Spain in the 900s, 1000s and 1100s. [DOC] [TLE] A Hebrew Troubadour in Spain? | David A. Wacks [PAR] Jan 28, 2011 ... Troubadours were Western Europe's first highbrow poets to sing in the ... some 
200 songs in praise of the Virgin Mary in Galician-Portuguese dialect. ... himself, 
wrote and performed their work in these languages instead of in Castilian, ... 
Andalusi Arabic poetry written in Spain in the 900s, 1000s and 1100s. [DOC] [TLE] French literature began when writers stared using the dialects that ... [PAR] Most French writers have placed special emphasis on form, language, style, and 
... poet-musicians called troubadours wrote love songs in the Provencal dialect. ... 
Both the troubadours and the trouvere wrote lyric poems that lauded women ... 
the 1200's B.C. Romans bretons (Breton romances) recounted tales steeped in... [DOC] [TLE] FR15: The Occitan erotic and troubadour discourse | Faculty of ... [PAR] Occitan is the name given to the languages (or dialects) spoken in the southern ... 
In about 1200, vernacular, (i.e. not Latin) rhymed love lyrics appeared in Occitan 
and ... poets write in the same language rather than in their own particular 
dialects; ... William Burgwinkle, 'The troubadours: the Occitan model', The 
Cambridge... [DOC] [TLE] European Chancelleries and the rise of Standard Written Languages [PAR] The decline of dialects and the emergence of standard languages in Europe at 
the close ... In 950 A.D. there were in Europe six "languages": Latin, Greek, 
Hebrew, .... So likewise does the first flowering of court poetry in Provence, Sicily, 
Galicia, and ... troubadours, and minnesingers fashioned somewhat normalized 
written... [DOC] [TLE] Variation and Text Type in Old Occitan Texts Dissertation Presented ... [PAR] poetry of the

Question: The troubadours of the 1100s & 1200s wrote their poetry in Provencal, a dialect of this language
Answer: French