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The Anonymous Marie de France

By: R. Howard Bloch

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Paperback | 15 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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The Anonymous Marie de France offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick's Purgatory.

Marie is, Bloch asserts, one of the most self-conscious, sophisticated, and disturbing figures of her time-a writer whose works reveal an acute awareness not only of her role in the preservation of cultural memory, but also of the transformative psychological, social, and political effects of her writing within an oral tradition. The Anonymous Marie de France recovers the central achievements of one of the most pivotal figures in French literature. It is a study that will be of enormous value to medievalists, literary scholars, historians of France, and anyone interested in the advent of female authorship.

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"After eight centuries of tenebrous obscurity, France's first woman poet once again emerges into the light." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Classical Literary Studies Language & Linguistics Reference, Dictionaries & Guides Education

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note on Texts	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Word Aventure and the Adventure of Words	p. 25
Aventure	p. 26
Lai	p. 29
History, Philology, and the Quest for Origins	p. 32
The Obligation to Speak	p. 36
The Will to Remember	p. 39
"Guigemar"	p. 42
If Words Could Kill: The Lais and Fatal Speech	p. 51
Marie mal mariee	p. 57
"Lanval" and "Laustic"	p. 68
"Equitan" and "Le Fresne"	p. 74
"Bisclavret"	p. 79
The Voice in the Tomb of the Lais	p. 83
"Eliduc"	p. 83
"Les Deus Amanz" and "Chaitivel"	p. 89
"Milun" and "Chevrefoil"	p. 98
"Yonec"	p. 108
Beastly Talk: The Fables	p. 111
The Fables and the Lais	p. 112
Speech Acts in the Fables	p. 119
An Ethics of Language	p. 131
Changing Places: The Fables and Social Mobility at the Court of Henry II	p. 139
Scholasticism and the Fables	p. 141
Abelardian Ethics	p. 149
Appetite and Envy	p. 152
Logic and the Body	p. 159
Changing Habitat	p. 163
Social Mobility	p. 168
Marie's Fables and the Rise of the Monarchic State	p. 175
Right Reason and the Moral	p. 181
Town and Court and Royal Peace	p. 187
Measure, Timing, and Alertness	p. 192
Marie's Social Contract	p. 197
A Medieval "Best Seller"	p. 206
Chivalric Adventure	p. 209
Doors In and Out of the Otherworld	p. 225
In and Out of Another Tongue	p. 229
Making the Dead Speak	p. 234
Between Fable and Romance	p. 241
Making the Dead See	p. 243
Testimony and Transcription	p. 249
Genesis of the Tale	p. 255
Remembering What the Dead Have Said and Seen	p. 260
The Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ireland and the Colonization of the Afterlife	p. 267
Patrick the Administrator	p. 276
The Norman and Irish Peace Movement	p. 279
Ecclesiastical Reform and the Cistercian Presence	p. 281
The Civil Governance of Captured Land	p. 284
The Invention of Purgatory and the Bureaucratization of the Afterlife	p. 285
Purgatory and the Law	p. 296
Conclusion	p. 311
Notes	p. 321
Index	p. 357
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