Songs of the Women Troubadours (Garland Library of Medieval Literature) - Softcover

Matilda Bruckner; Laurie Shepard; Sarah White

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815335687 ISBN 13: 9780815335689

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

An edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairditz, a remarkable group of women poets from the 12th and 13th centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours.

About this title

About the Author:

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner is Professor of French at Boston College. Laurie Shepard is Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College. Sarah White is Emerita Professor of French at Franklin and Marshall College.

From Library Journal:

Scholars and poets have written about and edited extensively poems of the troubadours, who flourished in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries. This edition presents poems of the trobairitz, 20 identifiable and several anonymous women troubadours who wrote between 1170 and 1260 after the first generation of male troubadours and who ceased to write before the last generation. Because the editors intend this edition to be a script for performance, the editing is conservative, with regularization of rhyme only when necessary and few emendations in orthography. In a good example, translator Sarah White conveys vividly a troubairitz chagrin when her lover must depart at dawn?"En un vergier sotz fuella d'albespi"? a charming alba or dawn song with a refrain. Highly recommended for Old Provencal literature scholars and all those interested in love poetry.?Bob Ivey, Memphis State Univ.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0815335687
• ISBN 13: 9780815335689
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284