The troubadour was a minstrel of the court, but rather than wandering from town to town as most minstrels do, they would be employed to stay and entertain the court and its guests. Troubadours were held at a higher social than minstrels and jongleurs, who often were considered to live on the fringe of society. Troubadours were welcomed in the many courts of England, Spain, Italy, France, and Germany. Troubadours made amazing contributions to intellectual life with their new arts, blending courtly love, eroticism, war, nature, political satire, and philosophy. Troubadours often sang of subjects that greatly upset the church, so much that being a troubadour was considered heresy; rather than be critical of romantic or sexual love as sinful, troubadours
