The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Translation

ISBN-13: 9781554810826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 432 str.

Claire M. Waters; Claire M. Waters

Opis

Composed in French in twelfth-century England, these twelve brief verse narratives centre 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.

Spis treści

• 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 Béroul, 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 Chrétien 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