The Women Troubadours
An introduction to the women poets of 12th-century Provence and a collection of their poems.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...
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An introduction to the women poets of 12th-century Provence and a collection of their poems.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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780846701132 (0846701138)
Publish date: January 1st 1976
Publisher: Paddington Press
Pages no: 190
Edition language: English
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