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Paperback. Portugal enjoyed a rich and sophisticated culture in the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant literature. This a collection of over 100 translations of "cantigas de amigo", love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective, written in the 12th and 13th centuries. Translator(s): Fowler, Barbara Hughes. Num Pages: 136 pages, 8 illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 209.
Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo , love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More than five hundred of these mysterious poems depicting a young girl's love for an absent lover survive today. Until now, however, they have remained inaccessible except to a small circle of scholars. In her translation of nearly one hundred representative examples of the cantigas de amigo , Barbara Hughes Fowler ... Read more
Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo , love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More than five hundred of these mysterious poems depicting a young girl's love for an absent lover survive today. Until now, however, they have remained inaccessible except to a small circle of scholars. In her translation of nearly one hundred representative examples of the cantigas de amigo , Barbara Hughes Fowler ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807845745
SKU
V9780807845745
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About
Barbara Hughes Fowler, a well-known classicist, translator, and poet, is author of The Seeds Inside a Green Pepper, a volume of original poems. Her translations include Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt, Hellenistic Poetry, and Archaic Greek Poetry. She is John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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