# The troubadours Author: Hueffer, Francis, 1845-1889 Genre: Troubadours Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77644 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+troubadours+Hueffer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary When about the end of the fourth century (A.D.) Germanic and Asiatic hordes began to invade the Western Empire with more and more irresistible force, the refined voice of Roman eloquence and poetry was soon drowned by the noise of barbarous tongues. Even before this irruption of new elements the language of the Romans had lost much of its classic purity. It was no longer the idiom of Cicero and of Horace. Familiar phrases, provincialisms and barbarisms had found their way into the written language. Thence it is that we find the illiterate expressions of the comic characters in Plautus and Terence occupying a place as legitimate words in the dictionaries of the Romance idioms. ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/47/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/63/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/64/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/48/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/52/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/45/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/61/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/62/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/53/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/54/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/50/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/57/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/43/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/60/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/56/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/40/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/51/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/55/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/46/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/58/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/32/index.md) - [Canto xxvi., verses 115-119.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/49/index.md) - [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/59/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-troubadours-77644/chapters/26/index.md)