Singers and Heretics

In this post I will try to give a short synopsis of a little booklet published in Holland (Zangers en Ketters by W.F.Veltman) in 1981.
After reading many scholary works, it is sometimes helpful to go back and study a small book, which gives an overview of the many cultural factors which played a role. in the Occitan society

Introduction;

To understand the rise of Catharism and the Troubadour culture, many researchers have admitted that there are secret streams or under-currants in history and those claims can be serious and well researched or they can go to a very one-sided direction and lead to all kinds of nonsense.
Many researchers connect the events with the Grail, Manicheism etc.

Both the School of Chartres and according to him also the Troubadour culture (and according to me only the Cathar culture) were waning. For the word "waning" the Dutch use the word  "Herfsttij" which literally means "time of autumn", which is a very nice term. Because it means that by waning or diminishing, it also has its fruit. And according to me the troubadour culture was only a seed for further development.
Both streams had to give way to Scholasticism.  Alanus ab Insulis of the the School of Chartres experienced the changeover from Platonism to Aristotelianism and took part in the prosecution of the heretics.
However the fruits were the rich literature and music which spread all over Europe.
And the relation to love changed. The experience of minor and major in music developed and also a wide range on instruments came into use..

He mention the enormous interest there is of the culture (in 1980!) and ask himself what can the importance be?