trouvere , trouveur .

[OF. trovere, -eur, truveur (12th c. in Godef.), F. trouvиre, trouveur (= Prov. trobaire), f. trouver: cf. troubadour.]

One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the 11th to the 14th c., whose works are chiefly epic in character. They produced the chansons de geste, fabliaux, etc. Cf. troubadour.

1795 Southey Joan of Arc iv. 175 Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sung Of Lancelot Du Lake.

1833 Longfellow Outre-Mer Prose Wks. 1886 I. 94 The great mass of the poetry of the Trouvиres is of a narrative or epic character.

1887 Lowell Old Eng. Dram. (1892) 7 One French Miracle Play of the thirteenth century, by the trouvиre Rutebeuf.

1889 Doyle Micah Clarke 208 A king of bards and trouveurs.

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troubadour

[a. F. troubadour (16th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. Prov. trobador (= Cat. trobador, Sp., Pg. trovador, It. trovatore), agent-n. f. Prov. trobar, Sp., Pg. trovar, It. trovare, F. trouver to find, invent, compose in verse; cf. trouvиre.
The origin of the verb itself is questioned. As it exists in most of the Romanic langs., it is generally held to be late popular L.

Diez explained it as formed by metathesis from L. turbare to disturb, through the sense ?turn up?. Cf. for the form F. troubler, OF. trubler, from late L. *turbulare: see Etymol. Wцrterbuch ed. 4, s.v.; cf. also the Neapol. controvare from L. conturbare. Another conjecture in Du Cange would take the Romanic forms from med.L. tropus, trope n. 5, a verse or versicle, whence *troЮare. Both of these, and other conjectures, present difficulties.]

One of a class of lyric poets, living in southern France, eastern Spain, and northern Italy, from the 11th to the 13th centuries, who sang in Provenзal (langue d?oc), chiefly of chivalry and gallantry, sometimes including wandering minstrels and jongleurs.

1727­41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., The poesy of the troubadours consisted in sonnets, pastorals, songs [etc.].

1767 Percy Rel. Anc. Eng. Poetry (ed. 2) I. p. xxvii, The Troubadours of Provence..are supposed to have led the way to the poets of Italy, France, and Spain.

1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. iii. 162 The troubadours brought with them into the north a new species of language called the Roman Language... It evidently originated from the Latin, and was the parent of the French tongue.

1833 Longfellow Outre-Mer Prose Wks. 1886 I. 94 The lyre of the Troubadour seems to have responded to the impulse of momentary feelings only,?to the touch of local and transitory circumstances.

1884 Tennyson Becket Prol., I am a Troubadour, you know, and won the violet at Toulouse.

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vagantes, n. pl.

[L. pres. pple. of vagar_ to wander.]
The scholar monks who travelled about Europe in the Middle Ages. Occas. in sing. form vagans.

1927 H. Waddell Wandering Scholars p. v, The historical interest of the Vagantes as one of the earliest disintegrating forces in the mediaeval church has been left on one side.

1945 [see vagancy].

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У кого есть объяснение, почему ранее практически 19 века "средневековые" ваганты, труверы, трубадуры в английских текстах ВООБЩЕ не упоминались?