Research Catalog

Title

Medieval woman's song : cross-cultural approaches / edited by Anne L. Klinck and Ann Marie Rasmussen.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Klinck, Anne L., 1943-
• Rasmussen, Ann Marie

Description

viii, 279 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

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 this book 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.

Series Statement

Middle Ages series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Middle Ages series

Subject

• 500-1499
• Women singers
• Women musicians
• Vocal music > 500-1400 > History and criticism
• Vocal music > 15th century > History and criticism
• Music > Social aspects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sappho and her daughters / Anne L. Klinck -- Ides...geomrode giddum / Pat Belanoff -- Women's performance of the lyric before 1500 / Susan Boynton -- Ca no soe joglaresa / Judith R. Cohen -- Feminine voices in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amigo / Esther Corral -- Sewing like a girl / E. Jane Burns -- Fictions of the female voice / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- Conception of female roles in the woman's song of Reinmar and the Contessa de Dia / Ingrid Kasten -- Reason and the female voice in Walther von der Vogelweide's poetry / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Ventriloquisms / Judith M. Bennett.

ISBN

0812236246 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001043073

OCLC

47643755

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library