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The lais of Marie de France

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Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet, and her lais are among the finest examples of the genre. Lais are short stories in verse based on Breton tales, depicting a moment of crisis in a love relation always intense and refined, and often far more complicated than our received view of courtly love might lead us to suppose. The lovers are not always timid for example, nor are the ladies necessarily unhappily married. Modern readers will find Marie's forceful and resourceful heroines and her undoctrinaire approach to love immensely sympathetic, while her contemporary audience, the English court and Plantagenet royal family, must have seen their own adventures mirrored here, for although there is a fairy-tale atmosphere the protagonists are undeniably human. For this new edition, Glyn Burgess and Keith Busby have included two new lais in the original Old French, Lanval and Chevrefoil, and an updated and expanded Bibliography.

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Contributors: Marie (de France), Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante,
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1978
ISBN: 9780525143406
OCLC: 3869125
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Title: French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
Contributors: Queen of Rumania Marie,
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Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Published: 2004-03-01
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Contributors: Marie (de France), Keith Busby,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1999-06-01
ISBN: 9780140447590
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Contributors: Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante,
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 1995-05-01
ISBN: 9780801020315
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Contributors: Marie (de France), Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante,
Published: 1982-01
ISBN: 9780939464029
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Title: Marie De France
Contributors: Marie (de France), Alfred Ewert, Glyn Sheridan Burgess,
Publisher: Bristol Classical Pr
Published: 1995
ISBN: 9781853994166
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Title: The Lais of Marie de France
Contributors: Glyn Sheridan Burgess, Marie (de France),
Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
Published: 1987
ISBN: 9780820309484
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Title: The Lays of Marie de France
Contributors: Translated by David R. Slavitt,
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: 2013
ISBN: 9781927356357
OCLC: 1001946343
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Title: The Lays of Marie de France
ISBN: 9781927356364
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Title: The Lays of Marie de France
Contributors: Translated by David R. Slavitt,
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Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: 2013
ISBN: 9781927356371
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Title: The Lais of Marie de France
Contributors: Glyn Sheridan Burgess,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1987
ISBN: 9780719019234
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Title: Lais
Contributors: Marie (de France),
Published: 1975
ISBN: 9788427612761
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Title: The Lays of Marie de France
Contributors: Marie de France,
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2010-03-01
ISBN: 9781603842983
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Title: The Lais of Marie de France
Contributors: Marie,
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999
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Title: The Lais of Marie de France
Contributors: Marie de France,
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999-06-01
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