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Rigaut de Barbezieux or the Religion of Love. The article presents a minutely detailed analysis of the idea and the experience of love as represented in the songwriter Rigaut de Barbezieux. The author endeavors to outline the stages of a kind of logical journey. He concludes with the thesis that Rigaut de Barbezieux was the first troubadour to conceive of amorous passion as a form of purely selfless contemplation, excluding even communication between souls. In other words, his historical originality would lie in the fact that, of all troubadours, he was the first to express, clearly and with a remarkable sense of importance, the ideal encompassed in the expression “courtly love” in its simplest and most popular form. The religious allegories encompassed within the comparisons so lavishly developed by the poet harmonize remarkably with this idea of profane love as a kind of pious and moral cult.