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Lais of Marie de France : Text and Translation by Claire M. Waters (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Broadview Press
ISBN-10
1554810825
ISBN-13
9781554810826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057254488

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lais of Marie De France : Text and Translation
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Medieval, European / French
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Author
Claire M. Waters
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-457868
TitleLeading
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Reviews
"Innovative and elegant, this edition links textual transcription and translation to a digitized manuscript of Marie's oeuvre, British Library MS Harley 978. Students can use this edition in tandem with the online codex to add historical authenticity to their reading. Claire Waters enriches the medieval context of her lucid translations by including informative appendices ranging from courtly love and society, to animal fables, to historical background, and important literary analogues." -- Stephen G. Nicholls, John Hopkins University
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
841/.1
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction The Life and Times of Marie de France: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Laisof Marie de France Prologue Guigemar Equitan Le Fresne Bisclavret Lanval Deus Amanz Yonec Laüstic Milun Le Chaitivel, ou Quatre Dols Chevrefoil Guildelüec et Guilliadun, ou Eliduc Appendix A: Speaking Animals From the Anonymous Lai Melion(late twelfth/early thirteenth century) From Gerald of Wales, The Topography of Ireland(late twelfth century) Peire d'Alvernhe, Poems (late twelfth century) "Nightingale, you will go for me" "The bird has held a straight path" Appendix B: Love Relationships From the Roman d'Eneas(c. 1160) From The Life of St. Alexis(mid-eleventh century) From Marie de France, Fables(c. 1180s) "The Wife and Her Lover" "Another Wife and Her Lover" From Béroul, Tristan et Iseut (mid-twelfth century) Appendix C: Prologues and Epilogues From Marie de France, Fables(c. 1180s) From Marie de France, Saint Patrick's Purgatory(c. 1190) From Marie de France, Life of St. Audrey (c. 1200) From Chrétien de Troyes, Cliges(1170s-80s) From Wace,Roman de Rou(1160s) Prologue of Denis Piramus, Life of St. Edmund (1190-93) Prologue to the Old Norse Translation of the Lais(midthirteenth century) Appendix D: Historical and Legendary Accounts of Britain and the Normans From Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain(c. 1138) From an Anonymous Anglo-Norman Verse Chronicle (twelfth/thirteenth century) Appendix E: Courtly Life and Pursuits From Wace, Roman de Brut(c. 1155) From The Life of William Marshal(thirteenth century) From an Anglo-French Hawking Manual (later thirteenth century) Appendix F: Textual Variants Works Cited and Select Bibliography Permissions Acknowledgements
Synopsis
Composed in French in twelfth-century England, these twelve brief verse narratives center on the joys, sorrows, and complications of love affairs in a context that blends the courtly culture of tournaments and hunting and otherworldly elements such as self-steering boats, shape-shifting lovers, and talking animals. Popular with readers across countries and languages since their composition, the Laishave made their author, Marie, one of the most famous women writers of the Middle Ages, renowned for her brilliant use of language and cultural allusion as well as her keen eye for human behavior. This new edition provides a complete facing-page edition with the original text alongside a new modern English translation. A single manuscript, Harley 978, is used as the copy text. Appendices include contemporary literature on love, animals, and courtly life, as well as a list of textual variants in other manuscripts.
LC Classification Number
PQ1494.L3E5 2018