Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz

About this book

Truth of My Songs is a translation of poems written by the women troubadours known as trobairitz whose poems disappeared after the Albigensian crusade of 1129. Together the poems present a profound argumentfor and againstthe notion of fin amor the pure or fine notion of love invented by their male counterparts. Tragic raucous vulgar silly and strange the poems of the trobairitz prove that womens history has been recorded since the first woman raised her voice and lifted a pen.