scholar_farmer · @scholar_farmer
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On the birdsite, there's a discussion of work songs going on -- so I broke out my Chanson De Toile bit on women's handwork in the Middle Ages. The song "Bele Aiglentine" teaches well:

youtube.com/watch?v=wwoR7dZMRT

There's a transl in Jameson 2021, & it matches nicely to Jane Burns' chapter, "Love's Stitches Undone: Women's Work in the chanson de toile." Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (UPenn2002), pp. 88-118.

#worksongs #medieval #chansondetoile #canso

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