Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in
France and who lived in England during the twelfth century.
Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French
vernacular, Marie de France helped shape the style and genres of
later medieval poetry. This Norton Critical Edition includes all of
Marie slais (short narrative verse poems); selected fables; and a
generous excerpt from Saint Patrick s Purgatory, a long poem based
on a well-known medieval legend. Each text is accompanied by
detailed explanatory annotations. For comparative reading, two
lais, Bisclavret and Yonec, are accompanied by Marie s facing-page
originals. Contexts, Sources, Analogues, Influences is thematically
organized to provide readers with a clear sense of Marie s
inspirations. Topics include The Supernatural, Love and Romance,
Medical Traditions, Fable Sources and Analogues: Similar Themes,
and Purgatory and the Afterlife. Ovid, St. Augustine, King Cnut,
Chaucer, Andreas Capellanus, Boccaccio, Aristotle, and Bede are
among the authors included
From the wealth of scholarly work published on Marie de France,
Dorothy Gilbert has chosen eight essays that address issues of
history and authorship as well as major themes in the lais, fables,
and Saint Patrick s Purgatory. The contributors are Thomas Warton,
Abbe Gervais de la Rue, Joseph Bedier, Leo Spitzer, R. Howard
Bloch, E. A. Francis, Jill Mann, and Jacques LeGoff. A selected
bibliography is also included. "
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