| Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs Contributor(s): Classen, Albrecht (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1843842963 ISBN-13: 9781843842965 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Medieval - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 831.308 |
| Series: Library of Medieval Women |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.44 lbs) 164 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Classen proves this to be a misconception, presenting here a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German women poets, translated for the first time. Many seem to have left their works anonymously, or hid their names using acrostics; in these and other cases, Classen has identified a considerable corpus of writing which now fills the gap previously supposed to exist in the history of medieval and early-modern German women's poetry. |