Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 4580
Author(s): Millay, S. Lea.
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Title : The Voice of the Court Woman Poet [The author compares the poetry of Izumi Shikibu with that of the countess de Dia, finding in both the voice of the passionate woman].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000.  Pages 91 - 116.
Year of Publication: 2000.
2. Record Number: 5529
Author(s): Cheyette, Fredric L. and Margaret Switten
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Title : Women in Troubadour Song: Of the Countess and the Vilana [The authors analyze two songs, one by the Countess de Dia and the other by Marcabru, in which strong women's voices are heard demanding their rights and resisting exploitation; the authors also trace the varied political roles of Occitan noble women and the social setting in which these two songs might have been performed].
Source: Women and Music , 2., ( 1998):  Pages 26 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1998.
3. Record Number: 3613
Author(s): Jewers, Caroline.
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Title : Reading and Righting: Issues of Value and Gender in Early Women Poets
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 1 (Spring 1998):  Pages 97 - 121.
Year of Publication: 1998.
4. Record Number: 2393
Author(s): Michaud, Francine.
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Title : The Comtessa de Dia and the Trobairitz [includes Occitan text, English translation, and modern performance scores for "A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu no volria" and "Estat ai en greu cossirier" by the countess de Dia and "Loncx temps ai avut cossiriers" by Raimon de Miraval].
Source: Women Composers: Music Through the Ages.   Edited by Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman .   Volume 1 Composers Born Before 1599. G.K. Hall ; Prentice Hall International, 1996. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 1 (Spring 1998):  Pages 61 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1996.
5. Record Number: 10009
Author(s): Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn.
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Title : Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours [Trobairitz (female troubadours) experimented with literary and cultural definitions of sex and gender in their poetry. They manipulated a very conventional form (a male speaker addressing a distant, silent lady) and invented their own distinctive literary versions of the female voice. Even though it is hard to define, the notion of voice in literary texts is a powerful concept for feminist writers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 67., 4 (October 1992):  Pages 865 - 891.
Year of Publication: 1992.