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This is the first twentieth-century study of the women troubadours who flourished in Southern France between 1150 and 1250-the great period of troubadour poetry. The book is comprised of a full-length essay on women in the Middle Ages, twenty-three poems by the women troubadours themselves in the original Provencal with…
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Found in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Library in Carmarthen during my MA Creative Writing.
Bogin delivers racy translations of the female troubadour poetry and a substantial essay on their context. This was a serendipitous find for me, as I was writing about an 11th-century woman in southern France at the time, Almodis de La Marche, and it set me off on another bout of research that led to another bout of writing.
Female troubadours figure in several of my novels and a very louche, Welsh bard spy is a key character in my trilogy. He is based…
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