Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 1700
  • Author(s)/Creator(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.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Courtly Love Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne Literature- Verse Noble Women Occitania Power Politics Rulers Troubadours
  • Award Note:
  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 12-13
  • Primary Evidence:
  • Illustrations:
  • Table: One map. Occitania.
  • Abstract:
  • Related Resources: Two studies explore realities behind acclaimed literary representations. ChrŽtien de Troyes in the court of Marie de Champagne, and the troubadours swarming around the lords and ladies of southern France represent a world of which women seem to have been
  • Author's Affiliation: Amherst College
  • Conference Info: - , -
  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0812235037