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The women troubadours / Meg Bogin.
LIBRA Special PC3322 .B6 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogin, Magda.
- Series:
- Norton paperback
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Provençal poetry--Women authors--Translations into English.
- Provençal poetry.
- Women and literature--France, Southern--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature.
- Provençal poetry--Women authors.
- Poets, Provençal--Biography.
- Poets, Provençal.
- History.
- Southern France.
- Troubadours.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, 1980.
- Summary:
- Twenty-three poems by women of twelfth and thirteenth-century Provence provide the woman's perspective on court life and troubadour conventions.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The essay. Historical background
- Courtly love : a new interpretation
- The women troubadours
- The poems. A word on the translations
- Pronunciation guide
- Tibors
- Countess of Dia
- Almucs de Castelnau and Iseut de Capio
- Azalais de Porcairages
- Maria de Ventadorn
- Alamanda
- Garsenda
- Isabella
- Lombarda
- Castelloza
- Clara d'Anduza
- Bieiris de Romans
- Guillelma de Rosers
- Domna H.
- Alais, Iselda and Carenza
- Anonymous I
- Anonymous II
- Anonymous III
- Appendix. Biographies
- Manuscript sources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393009653
- 9780393009651
- OCLC:
- 5798961
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