The Women Troubadours

by Meg Bogin

Book Overview

An introduction to the women poets of the 12th-century Provence and a collection of their poems. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393009653
• ISBN13: 9780393009651
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Valuable and interesting - as literary history

This volume aims for a college audience in that provides extensive background to understand the social context of the poetry - something a scholar of the poetry would know - and it provides rather literal translations of the poems - rather than reworkings of the poems that work in English. As such, this is a book you read for what you can learn rather than for literary pleasure.Nonetheless, it is enjoyable reading for someone (like myself) with no particular interest in the region or the time nor interest in female literature solely for the gender of the author.The most surprising piece is a poem written by a woman to a woman. One of the more interesting to me, is a poem which straddles the troubador and religious traditions.