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‘I was such a lovely girl’

Barbara Newman: The Songs of the Medieval Troubadours, 25 May 2006

Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours 
translated by Ezra Pound, W.D. Snodgrass and Robert Kehew, edited by Robert Kehew.
Chicago, 280 pp., £35, May 2005, 0 226 42933 4
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Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads and Carols 
edited by John Hirsh.
Blackwell, 220 pp., £17.99, August 2004, 1 4051 1482 7
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An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman’s Song 
edited by Anne Klinck.
Palgrave, 208 pp., £19.99, May 2004, 9781403963109
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... of the innumerable songs voiced by female speakers might actually have been composed by women? Anne Klinck’s Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman’s Song collects songs in the female voice; the repertoires extend from classical Greece and Rome through early medieval Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia, and multicultural Spain to the more ...

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