Languages of Lyric Poetry of Medieval Romania: Cultural Codes and Pluralism of Artistic Styles

In the Romance languages – Provençal, French, Italian and Galician-Portuguese – masterpieces of medieval lyric poetry were created in the Middle Ages. Romance glottonyms contain information about the origin and beginnings of the historical development of Romance languages. The basic glottonym is “Roman”, demonstrating the unity of the Roman peoples, heirs of the Roman Empire. Poetic languages are carriers of specific cultural codes that were formed in the conditions of the medieval courtly universe, influenced the appearance of European culture and became entrenched in European languages. Each of the poetic languages formed on the basis of the early written Romance languages can be considered as art: they provide new systems of versification, the decoration of which is rhyme, a variety of syntactic means of expression, which leads to variations and shades of poetic meanings. The aim of this study is to determine the poetic code of those Romance languages that became the basis of medieval lyric art. The poetic code is transmitted from language to language through linguocultural transfer, which is based on the interaction of verbal and artistic traditions.