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Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages (Paperback)
Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
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This prose translation of twenty-four lays from the French Middle
Ages brings to the general reader as well as to scholars a
complement to the twelve well-known lays by Marie de France, the
possible creator of the genre. These lays are mostly anonymous, and
the majority, but by no means all of them, are, like Marie's lays,
centred on a love interest of some kind in a variety of settings.
But, unlike Marie's lays, their treatment varies from the courtly
and sophisticated to the comic or the tragic, thereby illustrating
the range of poems covered by the term lai in twelfth- and
thirteenth-century France. A significant number of these lays,
based in the courtly world, contain supernatural elements or magic
objects that are fundamental to the story as it is related, and
sometimes the heroes leave the real world to dwell forever in an
otherworldly domain. Other lays have a more mundane feel to them
and seem closer to the fabliau in tone. In one instance, the lay of
Haveloc, the tale owes more to legendary history than to pure
fantasy. Overall, this collection stakes a claim to make an
important contribution to the Medieval French lay within the wider
European tradition of the short story and the literature of love.
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