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Raimon de Cornet

Raimon de Cornet is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Raimon de Cornet rather than just read about it. In short: Raimon de Cornet (Occitan pronunciation: [rajˈmun de kuɾˈnet], also spelled Ramon de Cornet; fl. 1324–1340) was a fourteenth-century Toulousain priest, friar, grammarian, poet, and troubadour. He was a prolific author of verse; more than forty of his poems survive, most in Occitan but two in Latin.

Raimon de Cornet — main illustration
Raimon de Cornet — illustration

Key takeaways

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  • Reproduce the core statement of Raimon de Cornet from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Raimon de Cornet (Occitan pronunciation: [rajˈmun de kuɾˈnet], also spelled Ramon de Cornet; fl. 1324–1340) was a fourteenth-century Toulousain priest, friar, grammarian, poet, and troubadour. He was a prolific author of verse; more than forty of his poems survive, most in Occitan but two in Latin. He also wrote letters, a didactic poem (sometimes classed as the last ensenhamen), a grammar, and some treatises on computation (i.e. practical mathematics). He was the "last of the troubadours" and represented l'esprit le plus brillant (the most brilliant spirit) of the "Toulousain School". He appears in contemporary documents with the titles En (sir, also mossen) and Frare (brother, also fray, frai, or frayre). Raimon's magnum opus is his Doctrinal de trobar (doctrines of composition) composed around 1324 and dedicated to Peter, Count of Ribagorza. The Doctrinal follows the grammar put forward later by the Consistori del Gay Saber of Guilhem Molinier and it is structurally identical to Guilhem's Leys d'Amors. Both works spend a good deal of space quoting illustrative passages from the greatest troubadours of the past. The Doctrinal is considered the first work of the Gay Saber tradition. In a passage praising the pleasure of poetry, Raimon lists many of the traditional genres, which he and others like him had helped to define:

Raimon strongly supported the Crusaders and bitterly opposed the clergy, Avignon Papacy, and eventually Philip VI of France. He wrote two "Crusade songs". The earlier one was composed in 1332, when Philip VI announced his intention of going on Crusade in July. Raimon suggests that the king should impose a tax on those men who do not join the Crusade, and in any case those who remain in France should pray two or three times daily for those who do go to the Holy Land. He notes that missionaries will inevitably accompany the host and attempt to convert the "Saracens". The second song, composed in 1336, is an attack on Philip for not completing his promised Crusade. Raimon's poem Quar mot orne fan vers contains the earliest reference to basse danse. In describing the profession of the jongleurs he notes that they rapidly pick up the bassas dansas. This reference predates any other by a century. Eighteen of Raimon's lyric poems are preserved in the final, unfinished folios of the Cançoner Gil, known as troubadour MS Sg or Z, now MS 146 in the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona. In 1341, possibly in Raimon's lifetime, the Catalan poet Joan de Castellnou wrote a Glosari al Doctrinal de Ramon de Cornet, a gloss on the Doctrinal.

Works in the Cançoner Gil Canços "Al mes d'abril can veyrez nutg los camps" "Le mieus saber ioy deziran se pert" "Ara·s fos hieu si malautz e cotxatz" "Intrar vuyll en guerrejar si puch tan" "Cars motz gentils fons e grans mars d'apteza" "Cent castels e cent tors" "En aycel tems com no sen fretg ni cauma" (titled "Saumesca") "Amors corals me fay deios un cas" (called a canso) Sirventes "Jus en la font de cobeytat se bayna" "Totz temps azir falsetatz ez engan" "Qui dels escachs vol belamen iogar" (com deu hom jogar als escachs) Vers (poems) "Car vey lo mon de mal pugat al cim" "Pauc homes vey de sen tan freyturos" "Raso ni sens no pot vezer lo moble" "Ben es vilas e mals e rustichs" "Ab tot mon sen d'amors si pusch faray" Tenço "Pres mes talens d'un pech partimen far" with Arnau Alaman, donzel d'Albi Unclassified "A Sent Marcel d'Albeges, prop de Salaç"

References Aubrey, Elizabeth (1989). "References to Music in Old Occitan Literature." Acta Musicologica, 61:2 (May–Aug.), pp. 110–149. Aubrey, Elizabeth (1996). The Music of the Troubadours. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21389-4. Auroux, Sylvain (2000). History of the Language Sciences. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-011103-9. Cura Curà, Giulio (2005). "Il «Doctrinal de trobar» di Raimon de Cornet e il «Glosari» di Johan de Castellnou". Parola del Testo. 9 (1): 125–149. Desmet, Piet (2000). The History of Linguistic and Grammatical Praxis. Peeters Publishers. ISBN 90-429-0884-X. Paden, William D. (1995). "The Troubadours and the Albigensian Crusade: A Long View." Romance Philology, 49:2 (Nov.), pp. 168–191 Paterson, Linda (2003). "Lyric allusions to the crusades and the Holy Land."Colston Symposium. Zeeman, Nicolette (1988). "The Lover-Poet and Love as the Most Pleasing Matere in Medieval French Love Poetry." The Modern Language Review, 83:4 (Oct.), pp. 820–842.

External links Raimon de Cornet (14th cent. troubadour): Poem Criticizing the Avignon Papacy at Medieval Sourcebook Cançoner provençal (Cançoner Gil) at the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Notes

Illustrations

Raimon de Cornet: Joan's text is the prose text at the top. Raimon's text is the verse on the bottom.
Joan's text is the prose text at the top. Raimon's text is the verse on the bottom.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Raimon de Cornet

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Raimon de Cornet claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Raimon de Cornet before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Raimon de Cornet ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Raimon de Cornet

In research
Raimon de Cornet appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Raimon de Cornet in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Raimon de Cornet is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 14th-century French troubadours, 14th-century writers in Latin, Clergy from Toulouse, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Raimon de Cornet outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Raimon de Cornet in simple terms?

Raimon de Cornet (Occitan pronunciation: [rajˈmun de kuɾˈnet], also spelled Ramon de Cornet; fl. 1324–1340) was a fourteenth-century Toulousain priest, friar, grammarian, poet, and troubadour. He was a prolific author of verse; more than forty of his poems survive, most in Occitan but two in Latin.

Why does Raimon de Cornet matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Raimon de Cornet?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Raimon de Cornet.

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  • 14th-century French troubadours
  • 14th-century writers in Latin
  • Clergy from Toulouse
  • Linguists from France
  • Medieval Latin-language poets
  • Medieval linguists
  • Medieval writers about the Crusades
  • Writers from Toulouse

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