Trobár Talks

In this episode we discuss Poetria nova, the thirteenth-century treatise on poetry and rhetoric by Geoffrey of Vinsauf, focusing on his discussion of poetic delivery.Join our Patreon community at https://www.patreon.com/trobarmedievalSilent film clips...

In this episode we revisit A Room of Her Own, a program that we created around the 15th-century French poet and self-proclaimed defender of women, Christine de Pizan. We discuss Christine's world and the intellectual battles that she fought, why she...