Romance
The term was coined to distinguish popular material in the vernacular at first the Romance languages French, Portuguese and Spanish, later German, English and others from scholarly and ecclesiastical literature in Latin. The boundaries between the romance and the chansons de geste of the troubadours were somewhat fluid. In general, the strophic heroic chansons "ballads" were the property of professional performers, while the romance was associated more with aristocratic amateurs and private...
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