Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches - Hardcoverby Anne L. Klinck (Editor), Ann Marie Rasmussen (Editor) The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many