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1.
Record Number:
14697
Author(s):
Harvey, Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Troubadours [The author looks at evidence of Eleanor's connections to troubadours. Despite some modern historians' optimistic constructions of Eleanor and her court as a haven for troubadours, there is virtually no documentation of troubadours either in her entourage or writing songs for her. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries. Edited by Marcus Bull and Catherine Léglu . Boydell Press, 2005. Pages 101 - 114.
Year of Publication:
2005.
2.
Record Number:
10848
Author(s):
Nicholson, Francesca.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Seeing Women Troubadours without the "-itz" and "isms" [The author analyzes two poems attributed to women, Na Bieris de Roman and Azalais. Nicholson argues that they sometimes identify with a male lover and sometimes speak as women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pages 63 - 76.
Year of Publication:
2004.
3.
Record Number:
10849
Author(s):
Gaunt, Simon.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Look of Love: The Gender of the Gaze in Troubadour Lyric
Source:
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pages 79 - 95.
Year of Publication:
2004.
4.
Record Number:
6224
Author(s):
Nicholson, Francesca.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Seeing Women Troubadours without the "-itz" and "-isms"
Source:
Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. . 2002.
Year of Publication:
2002.
5.
Record Number:
6212
Author(s):
Gaunt, Simon.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The look of love: the gender of the gaze in troubadour lyric
Source:
Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. . 2002.
Year of Publication:
2002.
6.
Record Number:
9334
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Gender in the World of William Marshal and Bertran de Born [The author analyzes the lives of both William Marshal, knight "extraordinaire," and Bertran de Born, a French lord and troubadour, arguing for a continuity in their culture of a secular, knightly world made up largely of men. However, from Bertran's poem
Source:
Essays in Medieval Studies
(Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 44-60.
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Year of Publication:
2002.
7.
Record Number:
4464
Author(s):
Smith, Jennifer.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Unfamiliar Territory: Women, Land, and Law in Occitania, 1130-1250
Source:
Medieval Women and the Law. Edited by Noël James Menuge . Boydell Press, 2000. Pages 19 - 40.
Year of Publication:
2000.
8.
Record Number:
3780
Author(s):
Cheyette, Fredric.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania
Source:
Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. Edited by Theodore Evergates . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pages 138 - 177.
Year of Publication:
1999.
9.
Record Number:
3928
Author(s):
Paden, William D.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Troubadour's Lady as Seen Through Thick History [The author examines ideas about troubadours and their ladies in the works of literary critics from the nineteenth and early twentieth century; he notes in particular the emphasis on sexual guilt which he believes should be discarded].
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 11., 2 (Spring 1999): Pages 221 - 244.
Year of Publication:
1999.
10.
Record Number:
5364
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Code of Frustrated Desire: Courtly Love Poetry of the European Troubadours and Chinese Southern Dynasties Traditions
Source:
Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 4., ( 1999): Pages 1 - 21. Issue Theme- Discourses of Power: Grammar and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages.
Year of Publication:
1999.
11.
Record Number:
5529
Author(s):
Cheyette, Fredric L. and Margaret Switten
Contributor(s):
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.
12.
Record Number:
2329
Author(s):
Affeldt, Werner.
Contributor(s):
Title :
L'expression féminine dans la poésie lyrique occitane [two linguistic and stylistic analyses and comparisons of discourse; the first case compares the "cansos" of four trobairitz (comtesse de Dia, Castelloza, Azalaïs, and Clara d'Anduza) with thise of four troubadours (Peire Vidal, Raimon de Miraval, Guilhem de Cabestanh, and Bertran de Born), while the second analysis looks at twenty-two "tensos" in which there are dialogues between male and female characters].
Source:
Romance Philology , 51., 2 (November 1997): Pages 107 - 193.
Year of Publication:
1997.
13.
Record Number:
2360
Author(s):
Lafont, Robert.
Contributor(s):
Title :
La voix des dames [A psycho-historical reading of troubadour and trobairitz verses with an emphasis on the various roles that love played for male poets, both troubadours and jongleurs. The author also questions the biographies attributed to many of the trobairitz. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Revue des Langues Romanes , 101., 2 ( 1997): Pages 185 - 205.
Year of Publication:
1997.
14.
Record Number:
2463
Author(s):
Taylor, Mark N.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Servant and Lord/Lady and Wife: The "Franklin's Tale" and traditions of Courtly and Conjugal Love [The author traces ideas in the anti-adultery tradition, represented by Marcabru and Chrétien, that are developed in the story of the married love of Dorigen and Arveragus].
Source:
Chaucer Review , 32., 1 ( 1997): Pages 64 - 81.
Year of Publication:
1997.
15.
Record Number:
2393
Author(s):
Michaud, Francine.
Contributor(s):
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. French Forum , 21., 3 (Sept. 1996): Pages 61 - 68.
Year of Publication:
1996.
16.
Record Number:
1578
Author(s):
Kay, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Contradictions of Courtly Love and the Origins of Courtly Poetry: The Evidence of the "Lauzengiers" [psychoanalytic and historicist methods discussed; appendices show contradictions in the poems of various troubadours from the period of Guillaume IX through Bernart de Ventadorn on a variety of topics as well as excerpts from their works dealing with "lauzenguers," (jealous courtiers) the crusade, adultery, and religion].
Source:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 26., 2 (Spring 1996): Pages 209 - 253. Special Issue: Historical Inquiries/ Psychoanalytic Criticism/ Gender Studies
Year of Publication:
1996.
17.
Record Number:
653
Author(s):
Bossy, Michel- André and Nancy A. Jones
Contributor(s):
Title :
Gender and Compilational Patterns in Troubadour Lyric: The Case of Manuscript "N" [poems of Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine, frame those of the trobairitz Castelloza, Beatriz de Dia, and Azalais de Porcairagues.]
Source:
French Forum , 21., 3 (Sept. 1996): Pages 261 - 280.
Year of Publication:
1996.
18.
Record Number:
1574
Author(s):
Finlay, Alison.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Skalds, Troubadours, and Sagas [study of sagas and skaldic poetry with regard to the connections and similarities with troubadour poetry, "vidas," and "razos"].
Source:
Saga Book , 24., 40212 ( 1995): Pages 105 - 153.
Year of Publication:
1995.
19.
Record Number:
635
Author(s):
Cook, Albert S.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Pitches of Desire: Trobar
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 2 (Fall 1995): Pages 317 - 343.
Year of Publication:
1995.
20.
Record Number:
41
Author(s):
Monson, Don A.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Troubadour's Lady Reconsidered Again
Source:
Speculum
(Full Text via JSTOR) 70 (1995): 255-274.
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Year of Publication:
1995.
21.
Record Number:
1984
Author(s):
Classen, Albrecht and Peter Dinzelbacher
Contributor(s):
Title :
Weltliche Literatur von Frauen des Mittelalters. Bemerkungen zur jüngeren Forschung
Source:
Mediaevistik , 8., ( 1995): Pages 56 - 73.
Year of Publication:
1995.
22.
Record Number:
1555
Author(s):
Akehurst, F.R.P.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Courtly Love as Zero-Sum and Non-Zero-Sum Game [applies Foster's theory of limited good in peasant societies to the efforts the troubadour makes for his usually unobtainable lady; the author briefly considers the debate poem, the "partimen," as an example of the opposite situation, the non-zero-sum game].
Source:
Romance Languages Annual , 6., ( 1994): Pages 1 - 5.
Year of Publication:
1994.
23.
Record Number:
1557
Author(s):
Gaudet, Minnette.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Rhetoric of Desire in the "Cansos" of Bernart de Ventadorn [psychoanalytic and feminist readings of Bernart's verses as a means to restore his masculinity and counter his lady's power and frightening sexuality].
Source:
Romance Languages Annual , 6., ( 1994): Pages 67 - 74.
Year of Publication:
1994.
24.
Record Number:
8703
Author(s):
Gravdal, Kathryn.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Medieval Women Trobairitz [The author argues that the metaphorical expressions of the troubadour’s love and suffering before an all-powerful "domna" figure him as a woman. The female trobairitz counter this self-serving construction of gender by creating songs in which women have the possibility of self-expression and agency. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Romanic Review , 83., 4 ( 1992): Pages 411 - 426.
Year of Publication:
1992.
25.
Record Number:
12688
Author(s):
Uhl, Patrice.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Un Chat peut en cacher un autre: autour d'une interpretation "sans difficulté" de Henri Rey-Flaud et de Jean-Charles Huchet [The author briefly reflects on psychoanalytic interpretations from Rey-Flaud and Huchet concerning courtly love and more particularly Guillaume IX's "Chanson V: Farai un vers, pos mi sonelh." Rey-Flaud and Huchet see the large menacing cat in the poem as a symbol of the female sex and the cause of the poet's fear of castration. Uhl urges caution with this psychoanalytic approach and suggests other influences and ways of thinking that can be taken into account. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Neophilologus , 75., ( 1991): Pages 178 - 184.
Year of Publication:
1991.
26.
Record Number:
13347
Author(s):
Rieger, Angelica
Contributor(s):
Title :
Alamanda de Castelnau - Une "trobairitz" dans l'entourage des comtes de Toulouse? [The author suggests an historical identity for "bell' ami' Alamanda" who appears in a debate poem with the troubadour Giraut de Bornelh. Giraut asks Alamanda to intercede on his behalf with the lady whom he loves. Alamanda agrees but reminds him of the faults that he has committed. Rieger suggests Alamanda belonged to a powerful family which supported the counts of Toulouse. Her education at their court would have prepared her to compose poetry as did the "trobairitz," female troubadours. Title note provided by Feminae.]
Source:
Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie , 107., 1/2 ( 1991): Pages 47 - 57.
Year of Publication:
1991.
27.
Record Number:
12758
Author(s):
Newcombe, Terence.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Remarks on the Themes and Structure of the Medieval Provençal "Comjat" [The author discusses the comjat, a type of medieval Provencal song in which a poet announces his leave-taking from his lady; the article discusses the tripartite organization of the comjat’s content. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Nottingham Medieval Studies , 34., ( 1990): Pages 33 - 63.
Year of Publication:
1990.
28.
Record Number:
12784
Author(s):
Poe, Elizabeth Wilson.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Another "salut d'amor"? Another "trobairitz"? In Defense of "Tanz salutz et tantas amors" [The author studies the troubadour lyric, Tanz salutz et tantas amors, in order to argue for its status as a salut d’amor, and to examine the possibility that it may have been written by a female poet. Includes an Appendix containing the text of the poem. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie , 106., ( 1990): Pages 314 - 337.
Year of Publication:
1990.
29.
Record Number:
12785
Author(s):
Rosenstein, Roy S.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Andalusian and Trobador Love-Lyric: From Source-Seeking to Comparative Analysis [The author compares Andalusian and Occitan love lyrics in order to examine the revealing differences in the ways various traditions, poets, and texts treat the “international” topic of love. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie , 106., ( 1990): Pages 338 - 353.
Year of Publication:
1990.
30.
Record Number:
12792
Author(s):
Armstrong, Guyda
Contributor(s):
Title :
Poetry of Exclusion: A Feminist Reading of Some Troubadour Lyrics [The article questions the assumption that courtly love literature is “about women,” and attempts to expose the patriarchal structures within texts written by men. The author excludes the works of the trobairitz from this study. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Modern Language Review , 85., 2 ( 1990): Pages 310 - 329.
Year of Publication:
1990.
31.
Record Number:
12869
Author(s):
Tougher, Shaun
Contributor(s):
Title :
Marginal Men, Marcabru and Orthodoxy: The Early Troubadours and Adultery [The author explores references to adultery in early troubadour verse in order to determine what models for marriage are represented there. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Medium Ævum , 59., 1 ( 1990): Pages 55 - 72.
Year of Publication:
1990.
32.
Record Number:
11194
Author(s):
Rollo, David.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Sexual Escapades and Poetic Process: Three Poems by William IX of Aquitaine [The writings of the nobleman and poet William of Aquitaine subverts many of the conventions of courtly love poetry, as the elevated. chaste “domna” (lady) of troubadour poetry is sometimes characterized as promiscuous or bestial, and the poetry continually shifts between bawdy and meditative registers. Although the poems can be read as the narrator’s boasting over sexual exploits, some of the language in the poems suggests an underlying theme of male impotence. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Romanic Review , 81., 3 ( 1990): Pages 293 - 311.
Year of Publication:
1990.
33.
Record Number:
23417
Author(s):
Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine
Contributor(s):
Title :
Lust Exemplified by Two Wives and a Mute Troubadour (ca. 1115)
Source:
The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes. Edited by Richard Kay, compiler . Broadview Press, 1988. Mediaevalia , 14., ( 1988): Pages 178 - 181.
Year of Publication:
1988.
34.
Record Number:
11212
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Women and Music in Medieval Europe [While women in barbarian cultures sometimes had a stature that equaled that of men and education for women included some musical training, women’s formal participation in the musical arts declined as Roman culture spread. Music as rhetoric was considered part of elementary education and the philosophy of music was an important branch of the liberal arts curriculum, but universities were closed to women in the Middle Ages. Although most women did not have access to formal education in music, many women still participated in minstrelsy (a barbarian art) and the performance of plays. Some noteworthy women composed lyrics and music as well, including the trobairitz (women troubadours) and Hroswitha, a playwright who was also a poet and musician. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Mediaevalia , 14., ( 1988): Pages 1 - 21. 1991 (for 1988)
Year of Publication:
1988.
35.
Record Number:
28946
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Jaufre Rudel and the Countess of Tripoli
Source:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Jaufre_rudel.jpg/250px-Jaufre_rudel.jpg
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