This bilingual edition of three French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices of women and a third that lists women's virtues. The lively and amusing verses, translated into English for the first time, are prefaced by essays that set the poems into their linguistic, historical, and literary contexts. Together, the poems and essays provide significant insights into the role of women in the Middle Ages as well as into medieval social history and the history of misogyny. The pairing of one pro-female poem and two...
This bilingual edition of three French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices o...
This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Refuting the long-held notion that there are no extant Old French lyrics by women from this period, the editors of the volume present songs attributed to eight named female trouveres along with a varied selection of anonymous compositions in the feminine voice that may have been composed by women. The book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen...
This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the twelfth an...
In springtime, a baby wolf is born in a den. Watch him grow from helpless little pup whose parents must feed him to a young wolf that can hunt for himself and run swiftly with his pack.
In springtime, a baby wolf is born in a den. Watch him grow from helpless little pup whose parents must feed him to a young wolf that can hunt for him...