Re: VMs: Occitan months...?

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

jean-yves artero wrote:

> However here is perhaps an interesting site:
>  
> http://www.inter-coproprietes.com/portail/formation/dictionnaires/dicosfrancais.html

	Thanks for the link.

> Montaillou is otherwise a great historical book for the background of 
> Middle Ages in Southern France. Curiously enough and as you may already 
> know, we are very near of Levitov's (IMHO at least partly wrong)story of 
> Cathars.

	I do know.  See my critique of Levitov by comparing 
his ideas with valid historical information on the 
Cathars:

http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/voynich/levitov2.htm

> At that time yes you are right the "trobadores" were with some more 
> religion-oriented monks the best bearers of the Oc/Provençal tradition ( 
> we here are dealing with the XIIIth and XIVth centuries or so ). VMS 
> interesting is perhaps the fact that they called their movement 
> the"trobar cluz" or hidden knowledge. A long story in a nutshell, I am 
> aware of this.

	The trobadores, the bearers of "trobar cluz", the 
hidden knowledge?  I hadn't heard of this.  Would you 
give more details?

	To you or Jacques, just what was the difference 
between Occitan and Provencal literature?

Dennis


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