Peire Lunel de Montech

Peire Lunel de Montech

Peire (de) Lunel or Cavalier Lunel de Montech or Monteg [Occitan "ch" and final "g" are pronounced identically, similar to "tch" in English "catch".] (fl. 1326–1384) was a lawyer, politician, and author of Toulouse. His name indicates he was a knight ("cavalier") from Montech.

In his youth he was a troubadour, of whose work survive a "canso", a Crusading song, a "sirventes", an "ensenhamen", and some moralising "coblas esparsas". Lunel's Crusading song is dated "circa" 1326; it is a critique of the king, Charles IV, who promises a Crusade but does nothing. Lunel's other datable work, his "sirventes", was written at the height of the Black Death in 1348.

In 1326 Lunel composed the very last Occitan "ensenhamen" (in "arlabecca" form), the "Ensenhamen del garso" ("instruction of the boy"), on the model of the "ensenhamen del escudier" of Amanieu de Sescars. The "garso" for whom he composed it was an aspiring poet looking for advice on how to compose. Lunel's advice is an important source for understanding the trouabdours' own conception of the "ensenhamen" genre.

Lunel was recorded as a "doctor en leys" (doctor of laws) in the register of the members of the Toulouse Consistory in 1355, the first year for which we have records. In 1384 Lunel was a municipal official in Montauban.

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*Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). "La poésie lyrique des troubadours". Toulouse: Privat.
*Paterson, Linda (2003). [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:-ZSZa_T9NfgJ:www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/about/staff/lp/lyrical.lus+www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/about/staff/lp/lyrical.lus&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca "Lyric allusions to the crusades and the Holy Land."] Colston Symposium.
*Ricketts, Peter T., ed. [http://www.rialto.unina.it/autori/PLun.htm "Cavalier Lunel de Monteg (alias Peire de Lunel)."]

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