Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs
A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.
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.
Dr Albrecht Classen is UniversityDistinguishedProfessor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
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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.
Dr Albrecht Classen is UniversityDistinguishedProfessor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs
A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.
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.
Dr Albrecht Classen is UniversityDistinguishedProfessor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
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.
Dr Albrecht Classen is UniversityDistinguishedProfessor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
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| ISBN-13: | 9781843842965 |
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| Publisher: | BOYDELL & BREWER INC |
| Publication date: | 03/15/2012 |
| Series: | ISSN |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 164 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d) |
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