Guilhem Anelier De Tolosa
Guilhem Anelier de Tolosa (also ''William'' or ''Guillaume'') was a troubadour from Languedoc. He was the author of a thirteenth-century Occitan language, Occitan epic poem ''La Guerra de Navarra'', recounting the civil war in Navarre in 1276–7. It was published in 1856 as ''Histoire de la guerre de Navarre en 1276 et 1277'', by Francisque Michel. It has been described as a ''canso (song), canso''.Suzanne Fleischman, ''The Non-Lyric Texts'' p. 171, in ''A Handbook of the Troubadours'' (1995), edited by F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis. External links *Guilhem Anelier; Francisque Michel, ed''Histoire de la guerre de Navarre en 1276 et 1277: en 1276 et 1277''.Imprimerie impériale, 1856. Notes

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Troubadour
A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) 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''. The troubadour school or tradition began in the late 11th century in Occitania, but it subsequently spread to the Italian and Iberian Peninsulas. Under the influence of the troubadours, related movements sprang up throughout Europe: the Minnesang in Germany, ''trovadorismo'' in Galicia and Portugal, and that of the trouvères in northern France. Dante Alighieri in his ''De vulgari eloquentia'' defined the troubadour lyric as ''fictio rethorica musicaque poita'': rhetorical, musical, and poetical fiction. After the "classical" period around the turn of the 13th century and a mid-century resurgence, the art of the troubadours declined in the 14th century and around the time of the Black Death (1348) it died out. The texts of troubadou ...
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