Medieval Woman's Song

"Klinck and Rasmussen are to be commended for bringing scholars from different languages and disciplines together to discuss a topic of interest to all-women's song. . . . The book will be a useful resource for scholars who want an overview of the period, its various languages, genres, and voices." * <i>Speculum</i> * "Will be of use to all students of medieval literature and feminist theory for its freshness, range, and exemplary use of interdisciplinary methods to illuminate and important part of the medieval literary tradition." * <i>Comitatus</i> *

Anne L. Klinck is Professor Emerita of English at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. She is the author of The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study. Ann Marie Rasmussen is Professor of Germanic Languages at Duke University. She is the author of Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature.

List of Abbreviations Introduction Anne L. Klinck Chapter 1 Sappho and Her Daughters: Some Parallels Between Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song Anne L. Klinck Chapter 2 Ides geomrode giddum: The Old English Female Lament Pat Belanoff Chapter 3 Women's Performance of the Lyric Before 1500 Susan Boynton Chapter 4 Ca no soe joglaresa: Women and Music in Medieval Spain's Three Cultures Judith R. Cohen Chapter 5 Feminine Voices in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amigo Esther Corral Chapter 6 Sewing like a Girl: Working Women in the chansons de toile E. Jane Burns Chapter 7 Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Chapter 8 The Conception of Female Roles in the Woman's Song of Reinmar and the Comtessa de Dia Ingrid Kasten Chapter 9 Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide's Poetry Ann Marie Rasmussen Chapter 10 Ventriloquisms: When Maidens Speak in English Songs, c. 1300-1550Judith M. Bennett Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments