Minnesang
Middle High German love song tradition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Minnesang (German: [ˈmɪnəˌzaŋ]; "love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany and Austria that flourished in the Middle High German period. This period of medieval German literature began in the 12th century and continued into the 14th. People who wrote and performed Minnesang were known as Minnesänger (German: [ˈmɪnəˌzɛŋɐ]), and a single song was called a Minnelied (German: [ˈmɪnəˌliːt]).
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The name derives from minne, the Middle High German word for love, as that was Minnesang's main subject. The Minnesänger were similar to the Occitan troubadours and northern French trouvères in that they wrote love poetry in the tradition of courtly love in the High Middle Ages.