This collection focuses on a woman's point of view in love poetry, and juxtaposes poems by women and poems about women to raise questions about how femininity i

Through a balanced discussion of poetry as performance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition and scope of "woman's song" as a mode, partheneia (m

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 trou

Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of

This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and