Moniot d'Arras
Moniot d'Arras (fl. 1213–1239) was a French composer and poet of the trouvère tradition. He was a monk ("Moniot" is a diminutive for monk) of the abbey of Arras in northern France; the area was at the time a center of trouvère activity, and his contemporaries included Adam de la Halle and Colin Muset.
Moniot d'Arras
- Born
- 1213
- Died
- 1239
- Nationality
- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- composer · trouvère
- Known for
- Lyrical poems
- Languages
- Old French
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Moniot d'Arras (fl. 1213–1239) was a French composer and poet of the trouvère tradition. He was a monk ("Moniot" is a diminutive for monk) of the abbey of Arras in northern France; the area was at the time a center of trouvère activity, and his contemporaries included Adam de la Halle and Colin Muset.
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Born in 1213, died in 1239.
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- 1.Moniot d'Arras. wwnorton.com.
- 2.Entrée trouvere dans Encyclopædia Britannica 1911
- 3.A History of Song. W. W. Norton & Company. 1970. 0-393-00536-4.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Moniot d'Arras et Moniot de Paris : trouvères du XIIIe siècle : édition des chansons et étude historique par Holger Niels Dyggve Petersen, Helsinki, Société de littérature finnoise, 1938, 252 p. (Collection : Mémoires de la Société néophilologique ; 12).
- Les Chansons de Moniot d'Arras : concordances et index établis d'après l'édition de H. Petersen Dyggve, par Georges Lavis et Micheline Stasse, Liège, Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université de Liège, 1985, 241 p. (Collection : Publications de l'Institut de lexicologie française de l'Université de Liège ; 7).
- Guy Muraille et Françoise Fery-Hue, « Moniot d'Arras », dans : Robert Bossuat, Louis Pichard et Guy Raynaud de Lage (dir.), Dictionnaire des lettres françaises, tome 1 : Moyen Âge, éd. entièrement revue et mise à jour sous la dir. de Geneviève Hasenohr et Michel Zink, Paris, Fayard, 1992, p. 1024-1025.
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