Medieval Woman's Song : : Cross-Cultural Approaches / / ed. by Anne L. Klinck, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Belanoff, Pat,; Bennett, Judith M.,; Boynton, Susan,; Bums, E. Jane,; Cohen, Judith R.,; Corral, Esther,; Kasten, Ingrid,; Klinck, Anne L.,; Rasmussen, Ann Marie,; Tomaryn Bruckner, Matilda,
• HerausgeberIn: Klinck, Anne L.,; Rasmussen, Ann Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Sappho and Her Daughters: Some Parallels Between Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song
• 2. Ides . . . geomrode giddum: The Old English Female Lament
• 3. Women's Performance of the Lyric Before 1500
• 4. Ca no soe joglaresa: Women and Music in Medieval Spain's Three Cultures
• 5. Feminine Voices in the Galician- Portuguese cantigas de amigo
• 6. Sewing like a Girl: Working Women in the chansons de toile
• 7. Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours
• 8. The Conception of Female Roles in the Woman's Song of Reinmar and the Comtessa de Dia
• 9. Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide's Poetry
• 10. Ventriloquisms When Maidens Speak in English Songs, c. 1300-1550
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments