courtly-tradition
Bernart de Ventadorn: The Troubadour Who Understood Devotion Before BDSM Had a Name
Bernart de Ventadorn, the twelfth-century Occitan troubadour whom literary scholars including Carl Appel and W.T. Pattison regard as the finest lyric poet of the courtly love tradition, composed cansos that articulated a complete architecture of masculine devotion. His poetry described service witho