Planh

Plasch is a redirect to this article. For the Austrian educator and politician see Leopold Plasch .

The planh ( oc. Planh from Latin planctus "lamentation") is a lament of the ancient Provencal trobadord poetry . He laments the death of a friend, lover, prince or patron, and sometimes a public misfortune. Like the Complainte, his choice of topics is broadly diversified. It developed analogously to the medieval Planctus , which was originally a designed lament for the dead , but could also include other content, such as B. in Konrad von Megenberg's political complaint Planctus ecclesiae in Germaniam (1337) or Konrad von Zimmer's Planctus Augiae .

The Planh is shaped as a canzone strophe and - despite its design - is mostly counted as part of the Sirventes genus or overlaps with them, since, unlike in panegyric complaints, there was room for an objective criticism of the dead, not only allowing praise but also criticism.

About 40 works of this kind have survived, including Gaucelms Planh on the death of Richard the Lionheart (end of the 12th century), a song by Giraut de Bornelh about the death of Vice Count Adémar V of Limoges (2nd half of the 12th century) . Century), as well as one by Bertran de Born .

literature

• Hermann Wilhelm Springer: The old Provencal lament with consideration of the related literature. A literary-historical study, along with a supplement about the Vice Counts of Marseille and the House of Baux in their relations with the Trobadors, a critical edition of some songs and two unprinted Old French lamentations . (Dissertation). Berlin 1895