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Medieval vs. Troubadour — What's the Difference?

Medieval vs. Troubadour — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Medieval and Troubadour

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Medieval

Relating or belonging to the Middle Ages.

Troubadour

A troubadour (English: , French: [tʁubaduʁ] (listen); Occitan: trobador [tɾuβaˈðu] (listen)) 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 troubadour is usually called a trobairitz.

Medieval

Of or relating to a historical period roughly coinciding with the European Middle Ages and characterized by feudal or aristocratic social structures, as in Japan or China.

Troubadour

A French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.

Medieval

Suggestive of the Middle Ages, as in being hierarchical or cruel.
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Troubadour

One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d'oc often about courtly love.

Medieval

(Informal) Old-fashioned; unenlightened
Parents with a medieval attitude toward dating.

Troubadour

A strolling minstrel.

Medieval

Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

Troubadour

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

Medieval

Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:

Troubadour

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.

Medieval

Archaic.

Troubadour

A singer of folk songs

Medieval

Brutal.

Medieval

Someone living in the Middle Ages.

Medieval

A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.

Medieval

Same as Mediæval, Mediævalism, etc.

Medieval

Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages;
Medieval scholars
Medieval times

Medieval

As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened;
A medieval attitude toward dating

Medieval

Characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages;
Chivalric rites
The knightly years

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