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According to an argument outlined by Maria Rosa Menocal in The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, in 11th-century Spain, a group of wandering poets appeared who would go from court to court, and sometimes travel to Christian courts in southern France, a situation closely mirroring what would happen in southern France about a century later.

Contacts between these Spanish poets and the French troubadours were frequent.

The metrical forms used by the Spanish poets were similar to those later used by the troubadours.