Planh

The Planh ( oc. planh from Latin Planctus " Lament " ) is a lament of altprovenzalischen Trobadordichtung. He laments the death of a friend, the lover, a prince or patron, sometimes a public calamity. In his choice of subject he is so similar to the Complainte broad. He developed analogously to the medieval Planctus, which originally was indeed designed a dirge, but could also include other content, such as in Conrad of Megenberg political application Planctus ecclesiae in Germaniam ( 1337) or Conrad of rooms Planctus Augiae.

The Planh is shaped as a canzone stanza and is - despite its size - usually counted to the species of Sirventes or overlaps with this, because unlike in panegyric claims an objective critique of the dead had place, not only praise, but also criticism allowed.

There have been handed down about 40 works of this kind, among them Gaucelms Planh to the death of Richard the Lionheart ( late 12th century ), a song of Giraut de Bornelh about the death of the Viscount of Limoges Adémar V. (2nd half of the 12th. century ), as well as one of Bertran de Born.