Peire Lunel de Montech

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Peire (de) Lunel or Cavalier Lunel de Montech or Monteg^[1] (fl. 1326–1384) was a lawyer, politician, and author of Toulouse.

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, 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). "Lyric allusions to the crusades and the Holy Land." Colston Symposium.
• Ricketts, Peter T., ed. "Cavalier Lunel de Monteg (alias Peire de Lunel)."

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