Compared to poetry by troubadours, courtly love poems by Beatriz de Dia demonstrate that __________.
A. female writers exercised equally frank freedom of expression and subject matter
B. trobairitz poems focused on spirituality and the quasi-religious elements rather than earthly desires and sexual temptations
C. language used by women to address male objects of desire had to communicate symbolically or in veiled metaphors to mask their literal meanings due to social strictures
D. such works were highly censored and presumed to be written by male counterparts rather than attributed to a skillful female poet
Answer: A
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