Description
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.
Reviews
"A study that fascinates. . . . A thorough and insightful tribute to those women . . . who left for us a few, clarion, powerful love poems." -- Janet Beeler - American Poetry Review
"Meg Bogin has lit the poems of the women of an earlier age . . . and given them to us in their full power." -- Muriel Rukeyser
Book Information
ISBN 9780393009651
Author Meg Bogin
Format Paperback
Page Count 194
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 218g
Dimensions(mm) 188mm * 122mm * 15mm
Reviews
"A study that fascinates. . . . A thorough and insightful tribute to those women . . . who left for us a few, clarion, powerful love poems." -- Janet Beeler - American Poetry Review
"Meg Bogin has lit the poems of the women of an earlier age . . . and given them to us in their full power." -- Muriel Rukeyser
Book Information
ISBN 9780393009651
Author Meg Bogin
Format Paperback
Page Count 194
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 218g
Dimensions(mm) 188mm * 122mm * 15mm
