ABSTRACT
For many years, scholars have known of the existence of female medieval poets of Occitan literature, known as trobairitz. The trobairitz dealt with the same themes as the more famous poets of Occitan, the troubadours, whose poetry sings often of love and of the travails of love. Meg Bogin’s anthology, The Women Troubadours, brought the trobairitz to the attention of readers, but Bogin failed to include at least one significant author, Gormonda de MonO peslier. Gormonda is important because her poem, and there is only one poem attributed to her, represents a very important aspect of troubadour and trobairitz composition: the constant exchange and interchange of dialogue among these poets. Some of this dialogue is preserved in poems that are themselves dialogues, or tensos.
