A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages. Since the word troubadour is etymologically masculine, a female equivalent is usually called a trobai
The troubadour Perdigon playing his fiddle
William IX of Aquitaine portrayed as a knight, who first composed poetry on returning from the Crusade of 1101
Musicians in the time of the Cantigas de Santa Maria. These were in the court of the king, two vielle players and one citoler.
The Consistori de Barcelona was a literary academy founded in Barcelona by John the Hunter, King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona, in 1393 in imitation of the Consistori del Gay Saber founded in Toulo
The place of competition, the square of the Palau Reial Major