Medieval vs. Troubadour

Medievaladjective

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

Troubadournoun

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

Medievaladjective

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

Troubadournoun

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.

Medievaladjective

Archaic.

Troubadournoun

a singer of folk songs

Medievaladjective

Brutal.

Troubadournoun

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

Medievalnoun

Someone living in the Middle Ages.

Troubadournoun

a poet who writes verse to music.

Medievalnoun

A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).

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

Same as Mediæval, Mediævalism, etc.

Medievaladjective

relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages;

‘Medieval scholars’; ‘Medieval times’;

Medievaladjective

as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened;

‘a medieval attitude toward dating’;

Medievaladjective

characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages;

‘chivalric rites’; ‘the knightly years’;