Marcabru (1100-1150) - Planctus & Chanson - Pax In Nomine Domini

Marcabru was a Gascon, born in the first decade of the twelfth century. One of the vidas makes him a foundling, while he himself says he was the son of a poor woman named Marcabruna. He had many patrons throughout the Midi and Spain, including Guillaume X of Aquitaine, the son of "the first troubadour," and Alfonso VII of Castile and León. The low birth and noble patronage are reflected in his point of view and in the variety of his style. No one equals him in the furor with which he denounces the effeminacy and depravity of courtly life and the conventions of courtly love. From this moral urgency and highly idiomatic style arises some of the most difficult poetry in the whole Troubadour canon, the first instance of trobar clu, the hermetic style. But these moralizing lyrics are only one mark of his range. At the other end are songs extolling true love; and other songs, such as A la fontana and the pastorela, which dramatize a profoundly medieval view of right order-they are among the most civilized utterances in Provençal poetry. His influence was great, not only on the practitioners of the hermetic style, but on others who chose from the wide variety of his forms, or who took up his moral stance, but no one could ever re-create his irascible and exalted tone. About fourty-two lyrics are extant.
http://faculty.washington.edu/petersen/lba/marcabru.htm

From the album: Jordi Savall - La Capella Reial De Catalunya · Hespèrion XXI · Montserrat Figueras ‎– Jérusalem - La Ville Des Deux Paix : La Paix Céleste Et La Paix Terrestre (2008).
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Visual background - illustrations from the Morgan Crusader Bible.
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/Crusader-Bible

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