Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative

1. Introduction Authors, Writers, Singers, and Women: Gendering Literary Creation in Medieval French Culture
Brooke Heidenreich Findley

Part I. From Minstrel Heroine to Poet Heroine: The Thirteenth Century and Beyond

2. Singing From a Woman’s Body: Minstrel Heroines as Performers and Texts
Brooke Heidenreich Findley

3. The Parrot and the Swan: Performance and Composition in Sone De Nansay

Brooke Heidenreich Findley

Part II. Dangerous Muses: Toute Belle and Her Sisters in the Fourteenth-Century Dit

4. Competing Perspectives: Guillaume De Machaut’s Voir Dit
Brooke Heidenreich Findley

5. A Contemporary Reaction to the Voir Dit: Deadly Words and Captive Imaginations in Jean Froissart’s Prison Amoureuse
Brooke Heidenreich Findley

Part III. Women at the Origins: Fifteenth-Century Prose Romance

6. Verbal Prowess: Women’s Artistry and Men’s Chivalry In Perceforest
Brooke Heidenreich Findley

7. Women Writers and the Monstrous Author in Ysaÿe Le Triste

Brooke Heidenreich Findley

8. Conclusion: What About Christine?
Brooke Heidenreich Findley

Keywords: Literature, European Literature, Medieval Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary History, History of Medieval Europe