minnesingers

The influence of the movement, however, extended beyond the Languedoc, and was particularly successful in Germany and the Low Countries where the troubadours were known as minnesingers—literally, ‘lady-singers’, although here the word carries the meaning of an idealized or archetypal woman.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

The influence of the movement, however, extended beyond the Languedoc, and was particularly successful in Germany and the Low Countries where the troubadours were known as minnesingers—literally, ‘lady-singers’, although here the word carries the meaning of an idealized or archetypal woman.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Another group involved with erotic mysticism—although not known as a religious sect—were the troubadours, those famed singers of the love-cult in the south-west of France, whose German equivalents were the minnesingers—Minne being an idealized woman or goddess18.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

This unusual and outspoken tract links the Magdalene with Minne—the Lady-love of the minnesingers, but even more excitingly, it has given scholars pause for thought because it contains ideas about Mary Magdalene that are only otherwise found in the Nag Hammadi Gospels: she is portrayed as being superior to Peter because of her greater understanding of Jesus, and there is the same tension between Mary and Peter.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Another group involved with erotic mysticism—although not known as a religious sect—were the troubadours, those famed singers of the love-cult in the south-west of France, whose German equivalents were the minnesingers—Minne being an idealized woman or goddess18.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

There are no minnesingers or bards nowadays, and celebrity is created almost exclusively by the newspapers.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

This unusual and outspoken tract links the Magdalene with Minne—the Lady-love of the minnesingers, but even more excitingly, it has given scholars pause for thought because it contains ideas about Mary Magdalene that are only otherwise found in the Nag Hammadi Gospels: she is portrayed as being superior to Peter because of her greater understanding of Jesus, and there is the same tension between Mary and Peter.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Bazarov was very fond of women and of feminine beauty, but love in the ideal, or as he called it romantic, sense, he described as idiocy, unpardonable folly; he regarded chivalrous feelings as a kind of deformity or disease, and had more than once expressed his amazement that Toggenburg and all the minnesingers and troubadours had not been shut up in a lunatic asylum.

Fathers and Sons 2003

A large class (more than two hundred) of minnesingers sprang up who glorified earthly and heavenly love and the Virgin Mary as the type of pure womanhood.

Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

I learned to quote the minnesingers and to unctuate my hair?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various