Minnesang

Minnesang was the tradition of courtly love poetry and song in medieval Germany, flourishing from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. Its poets, the Minnesänger, were often knights or courtiers who sang of devotion to an idealised noble lady. Leading figures included Reinmar, Walther von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach, and much of the poetry survives in the Codex Manesse.