Occitania, known today as the 'south of France', had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created 'courtly love' and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries; and its Cathar heretics were the...
Occitania, known today as the south of France, had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created courtly love and a new poetic language in the vernacular, which were to influence European literature for centuries. There are many books on the troubadours,...