LanvalMarie de France

I. Marie de France (c12th?)

II. Breton Lais

III. Lais of Marie de France (c. 1160)

IV. Ecclesiastical attitudes to the vernacular

V. Rewriting the courtly romanceA. Marie's themesB. Lanval and the Arthurian Tradition C. Role of women

I. Marie de France (c12th?)

Assoc. with the court of Henry II (1154—1189) and Eleanor of Aquitaine in England

court spoke French

Marie the first known woman writer in French

Anglo-Norman spellings

Three Genres:

Lais

Fables

hagiography

II. Breton Lais: poetic and musical form popular among the poets ( trouvères ) of northern France

III. Lais of Marie de France (c. 1160): A collection of twelve short narrative tales with an introduction, composed in Old French (Anglo-Norman) in eight-syllable rhyming couplets

IV. Ecclesiastical attitudes to the vernacular

V. Rewriting the courtly romance

A. Marie's themesB. Lanval and the

Arthurian Tradition C. Role of women

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cammenu.htm

Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898), "How Queen Guenever Rode on Maying" from: Malory, Sir Thomas.The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthurhttp://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/abmaying.htm

Lady Godiva (1898) by John Collier (1850 - 1934)http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/godiva.html