Joan Tasker Grimbert

A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film. The nineteen essays are a mix of new, new English, revised, and 'classic'. It contains an extensive bibliography.

A Casebook

Tristan and Isolde

Wendy Pfeffer

Elizabeth Aubrey

Eglal Doss-Quinby

This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Refuting the long-held notion that there are no extant Old French lyrics by women from this period, the editors of the volume present songs attributed to eight named female trouveres along with a varied selection of anonymous compositions in the feminine voice that may have been composed by women. The book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen polyphonic motets, English translations, and a substantial introduction.

Songs of the Women Trouvères

Norris J. Lacy

A fine collection...an excellent introduction to Chrétien's world and work. Highly recommended. CHOICE

Joan Tasker Grimbert

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