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• Appendix A: Speaking Animals
• 1. From the Anonymous Lai Melion (late twelfth/early thirteenth century)
• 2. From Gerald of Wales, The Topography of Ireland (late twelfth century)
• 3. Peire d'Alvernhe, Poems (late twelfth century) a. "Nightingale, you will go for me" b. "The bird has held a straight path" Appendix B: Love Relationships
• 1. From the Roman d'Eneas (c. 1160)
• 2. From La vie de saint Alexis (mid-eleventh century)
• 3. From Marie de France, Fables (c. 1180s)
• 4. From Beroul, Tristan et Iseut (mid-twelfth century) Appendix C: Prologues and Epilogues
• 1. From Marie de France, Fables (c. 1180s) a. "The Wife and Her Lover" b. "Another Wife and Her Lover"
• 2. From Marie de France, Saint Patrick's Purgatory
• 3. From Marie de France, Life of St. Audrey (c. 1200)
• 4. From Chretien de Troyes, Cliges (1170s-80s)
• 5. From Wace, Roman de Rou (1160s)
• 6. Prologue of Denis Piramus, Life of St. Edmund (1190-93)
• 7. Prologue to the Old Norse Translation of the Lais (mid-thirteenth century) Appendix D: Historical and Legendary Accounts of Britain and the Normans
• 1. From Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1138)
• 2. From an Anonymous Anglo-Norman Verse Chronicle (eleventh/twelfth century) Appendix E: Courtly Life and Pursuits
• 1. From Wace, Roman de Brut (c. 1155)
• 2. From The Life of William Marshal (thirteenth century)
• 3. From an Anglo-French Hawking Manual Appendix F: Textual Variants.
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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 Lais have 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.
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• The lais : translations
• The fables : translations (selected)
• Espurgatoire de Seint Patriz
• The supernatural
• Love and romance
• Medical traditions
• Fable sources and analogues : similar themes
• Purgatory and the afterlife
• Early criticism
• Modern criticism : the lais and fables, Saint Patrick's Purgatory.

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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• ""Cover ""; ""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""The Lays of Marie de France""; ""Prologue""; ""I. Guigemar""; ""II. Equitan""; ""III. Le Fresne""; ""IV. Bisclavret""; ""V. Lanval""; ""VI. The Two Lovers""; ""VII. Yonec""; ""VIII. LaÃ?stic""; ""IX. Milun""; ""X. Chaitivel""; ""XI. Chevrefoil""; ""XII. Eliduc""; ""For Further Reading""

The twelve "lays" of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by translator David R. Slavitt. Traditional Breton folk tales were the raw material for Marie de France's lively but profound considerations of betrayal and fidelity, love, death, luck, and fate.

• ""Cover ""; ""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""The Lays of Marie de France""; ""Prologue""; ""I. Guigemar""; ""II. Equitan""; ""III. Le Fresne""; ""IV. Bisclavret""; ""V. Lanval""; ""VI. The Two Lovers""; ""VII. Yonec""; ""VIII. LaÃ?stic""; ""IX. Milun""; ""X. Chaitivel""; ""XI. Chevrefoil""; ""XII. Eliduc""; ""For Further Reading""

The twelve "lays" of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by translator David R. Slavitt. Traditional Breton folk tales were the raw material for Marie de France's lively but profound considerations of betrayal and fidelity, love, death, luck, and fate.

This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lays; two anonymous Breton lays -- The Lay of Melion and The Lay of Tyolet; a glossary of proper names; a glossary of specialised terms; and an appendix of selected texts in the Old French, including Marie's Prologue, Guigemar, Bisclavret, and Yonec.
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Written by a woman in an age when women rarely wrote and signed by one who calls herself Marie in an epilogue strikingly similar to that of the Fables of Marie de France, the "Vie seinte Audree" is a late 12th or early 13th-century Anglo Norman text. Recent scholarship has strongly suggested that "The Life of Saint Audrey", published here for the first time as an English translation, may in fact be a fourth text of that earliest known female writer in French, Marie de France.
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• Guigemar
• Equitan
• Le Frêne
• Bisclavret
• Lanval
• Les Deux Amants
• Yonec
• Le Rossignol
• Milon
• Le Malheureux
• Le Chèvrefeuille
• Eliduc.

• Prologue
• Guigemar
• Equitan
• Le Fresne
• Bisclavret
• Lanval
• Les deus amanz
• Yonec
• Laüstic
• Milun
• Chaitivel
• Chevrefoil
• Eliduc.

• Prolog.--Guigemar.--Equitan.--Fresne.--Bisclavret.--Lanval.--Deus Amanz.--Yonec.--Laüstic.--Milun.--Chaitvel.--Chievrefoil--Eliduc.