The center of European medieval knight lyric poetry is Provence in southern France. This type of poetry mainly describes the life and adventures of knights, especially the love and worship of ladies. The authors of these poems are mainly feudal lords and knights, and a few are lower class people.
The main content of lyric poetry in Provence is to eulogize the heroic deeds of knights and the joys and sorrows between knights and ladies. It has unique delicate and complicated techniques, and its contents and forms are varied: love songs, sentimental poems, debating poems, pastoral songs, dawn songs, serenades, elegies, lamentations, cross-military songs and so on.