The Women Troubadours

This is the first twentieth-century study of the women troubadours who flourished in Southern France between 1150 and 1250 the great period of troubadour poetry. The book is comprised of a full-length essay on women in the Middle Ages, twenty-three poems by the women troubadours themselves in the original Provencal with translations on facing pages, a capsule biography of each poet, notes, and reading list.

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Modern readers will find [the poems] surprisingly fresh in their direct treatment of the man-woman relationships, and will particularly enjoy the resonance they take on from a reading of Ms. Bogin's sketch of the historic background.

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