Excerpt from The Troubadours: Their Loves and Their Lyrics, With Remarks on Their Influence, Social and LiteraryPolitically, the country of the troubadours was divided into six principal portions. On the eastern extremity was Savoy, lying on both sides of the Alps. Next came Provence, situated east of the Rhone. Contigu ous thereto, and skirting the Mediterranean, was the county of Toulouse. Then followed Aquitaine with its dependencies, extending northwards to the Loire and eastwards to the Bay of Biscay. And in Spain there were the kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, the latter including the ancient county of Barcelona ruled by branches of the same family.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.