Troubadours actually represent an example of that change in the social set up that signifies individualistic approach. Troubadours represent the rejection of social locks on the ability of people to be romantically in love. Italian critic Mario Casella also attempted to note the significance of troubadours as a special development of Augustinian Philosophy of individualistic approach. (Silverstein, 122) The troubadours dealt with varied important subjects like war, politics, personal satire and other subjects, yet the main theme of remained love and affection towards women. Most of the ladies for which the troubadours were sung, were married. Only some exceptional troubadours sang for maiden girls. Thus, the concept of love touched through troubadours was conventional type and it rejected marriage as the major objective of love. Some of the genre of troubadours was very satirical and naughty in essence such as Alba, which is the song that is sung by a lover in the morning and often includes a watchman who warns the lover about the lady's jealous husband who is approaching towards them (Chaytor, 17)

Although most of the critics express troubadours as an example of individualistic approach that was promoted through renaissance period, some of the critics have opposed this idea too. Stone analysis the grammar used in the poetry and songs of troubadours as universal, unchanging and strict. He also notices that all troubadours...

He further mentions Dante's remark on troubadours and courtly love as a grammatical conventional discourse, settled, as Dante says concerning grammar, by the common consent of many people. Furthermore, the songs as full expressions also don't signify any individualistic desire. As Dante says that "troubadours songs are the arbitrary will of none in particular: it expresses, that is, the will or desire of everyone and no one, and hence they appear as anonymous." (Stone, 90) Gaston Paris also mentioned that the lyric poetry of troubadours had its beginning in the songs of women that were danced and sang in the valley of Loire. (Warren, 476)
Although, the debate over the issue of significance of troubadours will keep going on, one cannot deny the importance of troubadours as a significant to define the rift bought by the renaissance in between the period of medieval ages and the modern times.

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Chaytor, H.J. The Troubadours. University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge. 1912.

Marisa, Rosa Menocal. Close Encounters in Medieval Provence: Spain's Role in the Birth of Troubadour Poetry, Hispanic Review, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 43-64.

Silverstein, Theodore. Andreas, Plato, and the Arabs: Remarks on Some Recent Accounts

of Courtly Love, Modern Philology, vol. 47, no. 2, Nov., 1949, pp. 117-126.

Stone, Gregory B. The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. 1994.

Warren, F.M. The Troubadour 'Canso' and Latin Lyric Poetry, Modern Philology, vol. 9,

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