Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843842963
• ISBN13: 9781843842965
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"