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French Arthurian Literature V: The Lay of Mantel (Hardcover)
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French Arthurian Literature V: The Lay of Mantel (Hardcover)
Series: Arthurian Archives
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Text with facing translation of an undeservedly neglected, humorous
French lay, in which the women of Arthur's court have their virtue
challenged by a magic mantle. The Old French lay of Mantel belongs
to the group of anonymous lays that were composed in the late
twelfth or thirteenth century. These short narratives vary in tone
and usually deal with some aspect of love, usually in
anaristocratic, courtly setting. Here, this is Arthur's court, with
its well-known characters involved, and the tone is satiric and
comic; the story is a chastity test, which the ladies of the court
undergo in public by donning themantle - if it does not fit, their
behaviour is betrayed. The poem plays on the insecurities of the
knights, who are at first confident of their loves' fidelity, but
in the end are all too anxious to ignore their transgressions. The
popularity of the lay is attested by its survival in five
manuscripts, an unusually high number. It is edited here from MS
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 1104, a
manuscript containing twenty-four lays, including nine by Marie de
France whose work has to some extent defined the genre. The text is
accompanied by a facing translation, and presented with
introduction, elucidatory notes, bibliography, and indices. Glyn S.
Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French, University of Liverpool;
Leslie C. Brook is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in French,
University of Birmingham.
General
Imprint: |
D.S. Brewer
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Arthurian Archives |
Release date: |
February 2013 |
First published: |
2013 |
Editors: |
Glyn S. Burgess
• Leslie C. Brook
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
178 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84384-338-2 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-84384-338-2 |
Barcode: |
9781843843382 |
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