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Troubadours, Cathars, and why Jugglers go to Hell
Love songs that are secretly prayers. A dawn song that started in a monastery. A troubadour who became a bishop and persecuted heretics. Medieval singer Evgeny Skurat and instrumentalist Danil Ryabchikov join me from Montenegro to explore the hidden sacred side of troubadour music, and to perform it.We usually think of the troubadours as poets of courtly love, endlessly pining after women they couldn't have. But of the roughly 260 troubadour songs that survive with their melodies, some are outright prayers, and many more are soaked in monastic and liturgical imagery. Yevgeny and Daniil have…
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