The Women Troubadours

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.

Summary

An introduction to the women poets of 12th-century Provence and a collection of their poems.

Product details

• Authors: M. Bogin, Magda Bogin, Meg Bogin
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1980
• EAN: 9780393009651
• ISBN: 978-0-393-00965-1
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 215 g
• Series: Norton Paperback; Norton Paperback
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages