Puy
A puy ( Mfrz. Puy "hill" to Latin podium "place of honor") was a form of semiliterary, semigeligious cultural societies that cultivated poetry, music and theater in the Langue d'oïl language area since the 13th century. It is unclear whether the term is derived from the raised platform on which the poems and plays were staged or from the town of Le Puy-en-Velay in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region , which was a literary one very early on Society existed. The root lies in the tradition of the troubadours .
The Puys represented a transition from the courtly and aristocratic minstrelsy for urban Meistersang , while the medieval to civil society emancipated and, bringing it to culture medium. The societies included artists and art-interested citizens alike.
Famous puys originated in northern France, u. a. in Amiens , Caen , Dieppe , Douai , Rouen , Valenciennes and Arras . The latter developed into a literary center to which up to 200 artists temporarily belonged; its most important members were the Trouvères Jean Bodel and Adam de la Halle . The northern French puys held public, lyrical and dramatic poetry competitions, the winners of which were crowned prince, that is, an elected prince. The Puy de Rouen, also known as the Puy de la Conception Notre-Dame , annually rewarded the best chants royaux in honor of the Virgin Mary .
Dit , chanson , jeu parti and ballads were cultivated in lyrical genres, and in dramatic miracle and mystery games . The Puys flourished between the 14th and 15th centuries, until they - like the German Meistersang - only formally followed the traditional traditions and gradually faded away. In the field of spiritual theater they lived on in the Passion Brotherhoods.
literature
- Michèle Gally: Parler d'amour au puy d'Arras. Lyrique en jeu . Orléans 2004. ISBN 2-86878-236-1