medieval poet
Bard of yore
A medieval poet is a writer of verse from the Middle Ages, roughly the 5th through 15th centuries.
The term evokes troubadours, court poets, and anonymous composers of ballads and epics—figures like Chaucer, Dante, or the unknown author of *Beowulf*.
She studied medieval poets for her dissertation on courtly love traditions.
- Middle AgesEurope's feudal millennium
- Latin languageClassical Mediterranean language
- balladsNarrative verse set to music
- chivalryKnightly code of honor
- knightly questHeroic medieval undertaking
Dante Alighieri · courtly love · courtly romance · morality tales · chansons de geste · Old English · Geoffrey Chaucer · religious devotion · illuminated manuscript · allegory · elegies · Hildegard of Bingen · oral storytelling · Petrarch · feudalism · Rumi · Divine Comedy · minstrel
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
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