Been thinking about @BretDevereaux 's examination of Bertrand de Born's martial poetry.
I'm sure I'm far from the first to observe that it's much like some very violent crime-themed music pieces in the contemporary US.
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So here's my question for
@BretDevereaux : If de Born is writing the haughty equivalent of Straight Outta Compton, who wrote the medieval version of Gangsta Paradise - ie a mournful piece regretting a life of violence and cursing the writer's own blindness and foolishness?Näytä tämä ketju
Gonna throw this one over to, uh, @PetreRaleigh or @tlecaque or @medievalguy
I know there is a literature of religiously infused elite anxiety about the whole 'violence is our job' thing, but this is out of my period and I don't know that I could put you to the best example.
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My first instinct is to think of The Wanderer - by no means a poem that unambiguously condemns the martial life, but the lament of a man who now understands the joy he found in it was transitory, and its departure has left him with nothing (except of course God).
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I don't know off the top of my head, sadly, but I bet there's some in the troubadour corpus--I've wanted to teach a Troubadour and Hip-hop class, because I've noticed the parallels to the violence of 90s "gangster rap" and the unbridled sex of Peety Pablo etc.
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