A companion to Marie de France

A companion to Marie de France / edited by Logan E. Whalen.

After nearly eight centuries and much research and writing on Marie de France, the only biographical information we know about her, with any degree of certainty, is that she was from France and wrote for the Anglo-Angevin court of Henry II. Yet Marie de France remains today one of the most prominent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whalen, Logan E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 27.
Subjects:
Marie, > de France, > active 12th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Marie, > de France, > active 12th century
Marie > de France > 1135-1200
Marie (de France)
POETRY > Continental European.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One The Prologues and the Epilogues of Marie de France
  • Chapter Two Marie de France and the Learned Tradition
  • Chapter Three The Wound, the Knot, and the Book: Marie de France and Literary Traditions of Love in the Lais
  • Chapter Four Literary and Socio-Cultural Aspects of the Lais of Marie de France
  • Chapter Five Marie de France and the Anonymous Lays
  • Chapter Six Speaking Through Animals in Marie de France's Lais and Fables
  • Chapter Seven Marie de France and the Fable Tradition
  • Chapter Eight The Fables of Marie de France and the Mirror of Princes
  • Chapter Nine Gendered Sanctity in Marie de France's L'Espurgatoire seint Patriz and La Vie seinte Audree
  • Chapter Ten Marie de France Translatrix II: La Vie seinte Audree
  • Chapter Eleven The Manuscripts of Marie de France
  • Frequently Cited Works
  • Index.

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