Diversitate culturală în epoca trubadurilor. O perspectivă critică asupra cântecelor de dragoste ale acestora
Cultural diversity in the age of troubadours. A critical perspective on their love songs

Summary/Abstract: The love songs of the medieval troubadours, written and sung in the Occitan language, reached us due to the interest they aroused in the 19th century, and gave birth to a whole mythology of courtly love, a passionate but at the same time chaste love, condemned to failure due to the fact that most of the times the beloved woman was inaccessible (being married to the nobleman of the land). This perspective on the chivalric love sung by the troubadours became disputed towards the end of the 20th century, a critical analysis of the lyrics implying that they were much more ambivalent and centered on the troubadours themselves (not on their adored domnas) than previously thought. However, this case study analysing the theme of symbolic power relations present in troubadours' cansos must be anchored in a broader context, which highlights an (unexpected) cultural diversity present in the socio-geographical space in which the troubadours lived and that has given rise to a creative effervescence with reverberations to this day.

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