Dame de Gosnai

Dame de Gosnai (fl. 1200s CE) was a woman trouvère.^[1][2] She was a member of the Puy d'Arras, a society dedicated to competitions between courtly trouvères in 13th century Arras (in modern-day France).^[3][4][5]

Her most famous work is a jeu-parti (a composition, usually in the form of a debate, written by two trouvères as interlocutors, who compose alternating verses) known "Dame de Gosnai, gardez".^[6][7] Her interlocutor was the trouvère Gillebert de Berneville.^[7]

References

1. Doss-Quinby 26.
2. Pfeffer, Wendy (2022), "Women Trouvères", in Sauer, Michelle M.; Watt, Diane; McAvoy, Liz Herbert (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–3, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_93-1, ISBN 978-3-030-76219-3, retrieved 2024-05-22
3. Berger 113.
4. Briscoe, James R. (2004-08-11). NHAMW. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21683-0.
5. Randel, Don Michael (2003-11-28). The Harvard Dictionary of Music: Fourth Edition. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01163-2.
6. Dell, Helen (2008). Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84384-164-7.
7. Doss-Quinby, Eglal; Aubrey, Elizabeth; Grimbert, Joan Tasker; Pfeffer, Wendy (2008-10-01). Songs of the Women Trouvères. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-13375-2.

Bibliography

• Berger, Roger (1981). Littérature et société arrageoises au XIIIe siècle: Les chansons et dits artésiens. Arras: Commission Départementale des Monuments Historiques du Pas-de-Calais.
• Doss-Quinby, Eglal; Joan Tasker Grimbert; Wendy Pfeffer; Elizabeth Aubrey (2001). Songs of the Women Trouvères. New Haven: Yale UP. ISBN 0-300-08413-7.