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Original Title:	Lais de Marie de France
ISBN:	0140447598 (ISBN13: 9780140447590)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/332382/the-lais-of-marie-de-france-by-marie-de-france/9780140447590
Characters:	Sir Gawain, King Arthur
Setting:	France Logres(United Kingdom)

The Lais of Marie de France

Marie de France

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 6511 Users | 291 Reviews

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Title	:	The Lais of Marie de France
Author	:	Marie de France
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	March 25th 1999 by Penguin Classics (first published 1160)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Historical. Medieval

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This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and probably Henry II, that she dedicated these poems of adventure and love which were retellings of stories which she had heard from Breton minstrels. She is regarded as the most talented French poet of the medieval period.

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A great collection of medieval life in the world of the others. These Bretons lais fall more onto the medieval chivalric romance side than the fabliaux, though they contain elements of both. They included short tales that contain both elements of everyday troubles (fabliaux, though not bawdy), but then push them towards the more fantastical side of medieval literature, though not as much as others, such as Chrétien de Troyes. Truly enjoyable and essential for the lighter side of medieval

suuuuper short and good!!! just started and finished today! the first werewolf story!!! lots of sex and sexism and mistaken identity!! what were people on in the middle ages!! why is france Like That?!

I studied Guigemar and Bisclavret, and I ended up wanting to read the rest of Marie de France's lais. Bisclavret is one of my favourites, really, possibly due to reading William Burgwinkle's criticism of it and being amused to see it as a gay love story. Most of the lais are short and very easy to read, dwelling on knights and their lovers. I quite liked Lanval, as well, the Arthurian lai. Some of them have little morals in them, some of them are just sweet little stories (or sometimes rather

Marie de France is my homegirl forever.

Marie de France is one of the earliest known female authors, though we know little about her beyond her name, that she wrote in French and was evidently of French origin, and that she spent part of her life in England. To that extent, I found myself interested by these stories, and from a historical perspective there's a lot here. But my problem with the storiesand the reason why I'm a socio-economic historian and not a scholar of literatureis that they reflect such different sensibilities from

I wanna do a translation of Bisclaveret. If anyone wants to help me, here is what I've got so far. While engaged in making lais,I would not want to forget Bisclavret. Bisclavret in Brittany was bornCalled Garulf by the Norms. Erstwhile, people told the taleAnd often you would hear occur,That many men werewolves becameAnd set up households in the wood.A werewolf is a savage beast;Because at least when fully stirred,He eats up men and does great bad,Travelling and living in that wood.But it must

I've finished the "Lays" and have the two stories that were not by Marie de France to read, but thought I would get some impressions down before I finish them.The Lays were originally folk-songs which Marie heard from Breton minstrels, and she frequently praises the music to which they were set, which is obviously lost to us. Her source material is therefore similar to that of the more well-known Chrétien de Troyes,and many of his themes of courtly love and questing are dealt with here, although