Provençal poets called Troubadors adapted the Arabic-Andalusian poetic forms, inspired by their erotic éclat. Though she was not an esotericist, Helen Waddell’s The Wandering Scholars remains the classic account of this period of transition.
She relates the story of an abbot riding out with a young monk who is being allowed outside the monastery for the first time, when they pass some young girls on the road.
‘They be demons,’ said the abbot.
‘I thought,’ said the boy monk, ‘that they were the fairest things I ever saw.’"
She relates the story of an abbot riding out with a young monk who is being allowed outside the monastery for the first time, when they pass some young girls on the road.
‘They be demons,’ said the abbot.
‘I thought,’ said the boy monk, ‘that they were the fairest things I ever saw.’"
