Marie de France’s beautiful poems of courtly love, enchantment, and mystery are now available in a Norton Critical Edition.
Winner of the 2016 Northern California Book Award for Translation of Poetry.
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize For Translation of a Literary Work.
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’s lais (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 “Yönec,” are accompanied by Marie’s facing-page originals. "Backgrounds and Contexts" 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, 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 excerpts from nine pieces 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, Abbé Gervais de la Rue, Joseph Bedier, Leo Spitzer, R. Howard Bloch, E. A. Francis, Jill Mann, and Jacques Le Goff. A selected bibliography is also included.

Marie de France: Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

Literature & Fiction

De France, Marie

Poetry

W.W.Norton&Company

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Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Le Bisclaveret: Arthurian Romances

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

LAIS (French Texts)

Ewert, Alfred

Wiley/Blackwell

Marie de France, one of the best known medieval women, is justly famous for her Lais, but her delightful longer work, the Fables, has yet to be properly appreciated by modern audiences. This jaunty collection of 103 tales is the earliest extant vernacular collection of fables from western Europe and, in the variety of its sources, anticipates the compilation done five centuries later by La Fontaine.

Fables (Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations) (English and French Edition)

Spiegel, Harriet

Univ of Toronto Pr

Short stories about the behavior of animals illustrate a variety of morals concerning human nature

Medieval Fables

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Born in the early 1120s, the troubaritz Marie de France was the first European woman to write a book. Her Lais of Marie de France, a set of chivalric tales published circa 1170, was an immediate hit and has been in print in many languages ever since. Eleanor's Crusades, the autobiographical account of her extraordinary youthful adventures as bard to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, was lost until its rediscovery in 2005. A remarkable document providing a unique view of the tumultuous rebirth of western civilization at the dawn of the high middle ages, Eleanor's Crusades contains dramatic first-hand accounts of the trial of Peter Abelard, early chivalric tournaments, the Cathar heresy, the building of the first Gothic cathedral, the founding of the University of Paris, the sieges of Poitiers and Valencia, chariot races in Constantinople, the sea battle of Cape Malea, and the spectacular and terrifying expedition now known as the Second Crusade. This is its first English translation.

Eleanor's Crusades

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Polaris Books

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Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet born in France and living in England during the late 12th century.  She translated some Latin literature and produced an influential version of Aesop's Fables.  Marie de France was one of the leading Old-French poets of the twelfth century.  Her works include, The Lais of Marie de France (a collection of twelve short narrative poems not unlike shortened versions of romances), the one hundred and two "Ysopet" fables, a retelling of the Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick, and, most recently, a saint's life called La Vie seinte Audree about Saint Audrey of Ely. The Table of Contents includes The Lay of Gugemar, The Lay of Dolorous Knight. The Lay of Elides, The Lay of the Nightingale, The Lay of Sir Launfal, The Lay of the Two Lovers, The Lay of the Were-wolf, The Lay of the ash Tree, The Lay of the Honeysuckle, The Lay of Equitan, The Lay of Milon, The Lay of Yonec, The Lay of the Thron, The Lay of Graelent, A Story of Beyond the Sea, and The Chatelaine of Yergi.

French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

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Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an undisclosed court, but was almost certainly at least known about at the royal court of King Henry II of England. Virtually nothing is known of her life; both her given name and its geographical specification come from her manuscripts, though one contemporary reference to her work and popularity remains. Marie de France wrote a form of Anglo-Norman French, and was evidently proficient in Latin and English as well. She is the author of the Lais of Marie de France. She translated Aesop's Fables from Middle English into Anglo-Norman French and wrote Espurgatoire seint Partiz, Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick, based upon a Latin text. Recently she has been (tentatively) identified as the author of a saint's life, The Life of Saint Audrey. Her Lais in particular were and still are widely read, and influenced the subsequent development of the romance genre. (wikipedia.org)

Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, The Were-Wolf: Four lais rendered into English prose

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Les Lais

Les Lais De Marie De France (French Edition)

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