Cercamon [SEP] country of citizenship
stanza each) and perhaps of the "sirventes".
Most of the information we have about Cercamon's life is nothing but rumour and conjecture; some of his contemporaries credit him as Marcabru's mentor, and some circumstantial evidence points to him having died on crusade as a follower of Louis VII of France.
About 7 of his lyrics survive, but not a single melody; unfortunately, the work of his that most contributed to his fame among his contemporaries, his "pastoretas" or pastourelles, are lost.
"Cercamon" simply means "world searcher" in medieval Occitan.
References.
- Alfred Jeanroy (1966). "Les Poésies de Cercamon". Paris: Libraire Honoré Champion.
- Wolf, George and Rosenstein, Roy (1983). "The Poetry of Cercamon and Jaufre Rudel". London: Garland Publishing, Inc.
- "Biographies des troubadours" ed. J. Boutière, A.-H. Schutz (Paris: Nizet, 1964) pp. 9–13.
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