The Women Troubadours
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Book Overview
This is the first twentieth-century study of the women troubadours who flourished in Southern France between 1150 and 1250--the great period of troubadour poetry. The book is comprised of a full-length essay on women in the Middle Ages, twenty-three poems by the women troubadours themselves in the original Provencal with translations on facing pages, a capsule biography of each poet, notes, and reading list.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393009653
ISBN13:9780393009651
Release Date:March 1980
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:194 Pages
Weight:0.38 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Valuable and interesting - as literary history
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This volume aims for a college audience in that provides extensive background to understand the social context of the poetry - something a scholar of the poetry would know - and it provides rather literal translations of the poems - rather than reworkings of the poems that work in English. As such, this is a book you read for what you can learn rather than for literary pleasure.Nonetheless, it is enjoyable reading for someone (like myself) with no particular interest in the region or the time nor interest in female literature solely for the gender of the author.The most surprising piece is a poem written by a woman to a woman. One of the more interesting to me, is a poem which straddles the troubador and religious traditions.
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