Marie de France

Download or read book Marie de France written by Sharon Kinoshita and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marie de France is the author of some of the most important and influential works of the French Middle Ages: the Lais, her best-known work, the Ysopë (a translation from the Aesopic tradition), and the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's Purgatory). Taking Marie less as a biographical subject than as author of these three texts, this Companion rethinks standard questions of interpretation through a variety of perspectives that highlight both the unity of Marie's oeuvre and the distinctiveness of the individual works attributed to her name."--Page 4 of cover.