Medieval Woman's Song

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