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The Fables of Marie de France
Esopische fabels van de 12e eeuwse Bretonse dichteres.
Lays of Marie de France and Other French Legends
Lays of Marie de France and Other French Legends
A Companion to Marie de France
Presenting traditional views alongside new critical approaches, the chapters in this book present fresh perspectives on the poetics of the 12th-century author, Marie de France, the first woman of letters to write in French.
The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
"The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France" is a biographic work on the life of one of the most popular French queens. Her life was full of intrigues and scandals, the last of which created the pretext for the French revolution and the execution of the royals. This book will be interesting to anyone wishing to learn more about this extraordinary woman and her unusual fate.
The Anonymous Marie de France
This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Evidence about Marie de France's life is so meager that we know next to nothing about her-not where she was born and to what rank, who her parents were, whether she was married or single, where she lived and might have traveled, whether she dwelled in cloister or at court, nor whether in...
Marie de France
"Marie de France is the author of some of the most important and influential works of the French Middle Ages: the Lais, her best-known work, the Ysopë (a translation from the Aesopic tradition), and the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's Purgatory). Taking Marie less as a biographical subject than as author of these three texts, this Companion rethinks standard questions of interpretation through a variety of perspectives that highlight both the unity of Marie's oeuvre and the distinctiveness of the individual works attributed to her name."--Page 4 of cover.
