Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches. Edited by Anne L. Klinck and Ann Marie Rasmussen. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 256. $49.95.

This collection of essays revisits the territory of Vox Feminae: Studies in Medieval Woman's Song, papers brought together from some successful Kalamazoo sessions and edited and expanded by John F. Plummer for publication in 1981. The originality of that volume lay in its European comprehensiveness, and it brought a range of texts and questions to the attention of anyone interested in medieval lyrics or in medieval issues of gender. Covering Medieval Latin and several European vernaculars across a number of centuries, the essays from this book have been widely cited and have served to inspire much further scholarship.

Julia Boffey
Queen Mary University of London