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1306 Adam de la Halle

Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback), was a French trouvère, poet and musician. Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles)  Adam’s literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates) in the style of the trouvères; polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony; and a musical play, Jeu de Robin et Marion (c. 1282–83), which is considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music. He was a member of the Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d’Arras.

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1309 The First Siege of Gibraltar

Ever since the Battle of Covadonga in Asturias in 722, the northern Christian kingdoms had kept alive their hopes of “Reconquista” (the struggle to take back control of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors) and, over the centuries, had been making increasing inroads into Moorish Territory.[ With the collapse of the Almohade dynasty after their defeat by the Christians at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, the Moorish hold on al-Andalus (which had once extended across most of Iberia) was reduced to the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in the south. The Nasrids had to rely on the […]

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Ars Nova Musicae – the art of the new music

French music at around 1300 became known as ars nova musicae – the art of the new music The wheel of history turned rather quickly from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century. Several major events turned the fourteenth century into a more cynical era. Life itself, cheapened by the slaughter and political upheaval of the Hundred Years’ War, was even more uncertain thanks to the terrifying pandemic of the Black Death. And in the daily face of death and destruction, even belief in life everlasting was badly shaken by the Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism. Both earthly and heavenly kingdoms […]

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