Vulnerability of Female Voices in Trouveres’ French Songs of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Myth or Reality? La vulnérabilité des voix féminines dans les pièces de trouvères des XIIe et XIIIe siècles : mythe ou réalité ?
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Emmanuelle Dantan, « La vulnérabilité des voix féminines dans les pièces de trouvères des XIIe et XIIIe siècles : mythe ou réalité ? », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10670/1.dnztol
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In the French songs of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the female voice, often considered inexistent, appears vulnerable and subjugated to the male voice. As it happens, about 65 percent of all trouveres’ songs are what is called chansons courtoises, in which a man is speaking about a woman, who is usually silent. Her silence, moreover, is stressed by the male voice in these songs. We might thus think that women’s voices are intentionally ignored by the dominant voice, and are therefore vulnerable.However, other songs stage female characters speaking in many different situations. In about 15 percent of all Old French songs that we can access today, women’s voices are audible to a significant degree. I will analyse the degree of vulnerability of these voices.