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Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches

Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches

Klinck, Anne L.
Rasmussen, Ann Marie

Hardcover

Series: Middle Ages

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryMusic ReferenceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0812236246
ISBN13: 9780812236248
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Oct 27 2001
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.84 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

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 female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A woman's song in this sense can be defined as a female-voice poem on the subject of love, typically characterized by simple language, sexual candor, and apparent artlessness.

The chapters in Medieval Woman's Song bring together scholars in a range of disciplines to examine how both men and women contributed to this art form. Without eschewing consideration of authorship, the collection deliberately overturns the long-standing scholarly practice of treating as separate and distinct entities female-voice lyrics composed by men and those composed by women. What is at stake here is less the voice of women themselves than its cultural and generic construction.

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