“I never quite got over the feeling that all women . . . longed to be the heroines of one of those romantic episodes which were common incidents in the lives of the medieval troubadour ...

After feasting, minstrels, troubadours, jesters, acrobats ... Who was richer for most of the medieval period? In medieval England, people lived in greater prosperity than their counterparts in many of ...

It was invented by the troubadours, the hobohemian minstrel poets of the late Middle Ages. Medieval ladies spent half their time racing across the jousting fields with buckets of hot water ...

An English major at Wesleyan University, she pursued graduate studies in Medieval Romance Literature at Boston College and La Sapienza in Rome. She has edited troubadour lyrics in Bruckner, M., ...