Vanina Kopp (IHA)
Kings and Queens at stake. Conversational games between elite pastime and social competition Literary debates in vernacular language have been popular since the emergence of the troubadour lyric in the eleventh century. So-called Demandes d’amours or Jeux-dits, spoken or sung dialogues on the subject of courtly love, belonged to the repertoire of social, as well as literary interaction, until well into the fifteenth century. Poetic competitions were also a suitable instrument because they used a well-known set of courtly knowledge and customs, appealing to …




