Ensenhamen

An ensenhamen (Old Provençal pronunciation: [enseɲaˈmen], 'instruction' or 'teaching') was an Old Occitan didactic (often lyric) poem associated with the troubadours.

Around 1170 Arnaut Guilhem de Marsan wrote the Ensenhamen del cavaier 'Instruction of the knight' for a warrior audience.

A decade or so later Arnaut de Mareuil wrote a long, classically-informed ensenhamen on cortesia 'courtesy'.

In the 1220s or 1230s the subject of honour was treated by the Italian troubadour Sordel in his Ensenhamen d'onor and by Uc de Saint Circ in a similarly titled work.

Late in the thirteenth century the Catalan Cerverí de Girona wrote an ensenhamen of proverbs in 1,197 quartets for his son.