Troubleds, Trovers, Minnesingers. Ivanov K.

It is strange to imagine that there was a time when the knights traveled along the European roads and the tradition obliged them to be singers and poets. And some of them, admittedly, became outstanding poets. Having originated in France, the art of trumpeters and trumers spread throughout Europe and was prevailing in its own way in the lifestyle and work of the German "singers of love" - ​​minnezins. Usually these were poor nobles, but among them there were sobrous persons who not only sang their poems, but also provided patronage to other wandering writers who commit exploits in the name of personal honor and ladies of the heart. Knights and sublime poetry, which cannot be divided and without which it is impossible to imagine the European Middle Ages, is devoted to the book of historian and poet Konstantin Alekseevich Ivanov (1858-1919) - director of the Imperial Nikolaev gymnasium in Tsarskoye Selo, home teacher and geography of children of the last Russian tsar.