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Marie De France

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Marie De France

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who is Marie de France? This is a question that many scolars have been asking. With doing so they have come up with several assumptions. These assumtions would give her many diffrent perspectives . for instance, it is said that she may be an abbess at a convant, a sister to Henry II, a daughter of :Geoffery of Anjou, William Manderill Earl of Sussex, or Walera de Beaumopnt. Another places her simply as an illigitamante daughter of a roaly father ( not nessisarily the king). Through this all she is associated with the court of Eleanor of Aquitane. It is still unknown of Marie de France is even her true name, or if Marie was both female and one person. 

     Marie write between 1160 c.e. and 1215 c.e , though the year of her last peice is slightly controversal some belive it was 1190 c.e.. She was also the first female writer of france much of what is known is from her writeing. A reason for her name being so well known would have to be atributed to her placeing it within her work. She states within her first Lai "Listen my lords to what Marie tells you" and within the epolouge to her fables  " Marie is my name/ I am from France".

A few othere tid bits about the poet Marie would have to be that she spent some of her life in briton ( as shown through her adaptations of many British tales).Marie write in French Venacular. Through comparison with Ovid a conceptopnm of love can be seen as very similar. Marie recived the authority as an author by reviveing the classical figures. That is that in studying both Ovid's demonstrations of love in his work and Maries you can see the demonstration of persueing and enchanting a lover.

 

 

 

 

Marie's work can be broken up into three diffrent catigories: Lai's, Fables, and Spiritual journies.

 

Lai

 

A Lai is a narritive song or tale that recounts an adventure. Marie de France's Lais were translated into Old Noris, Middle English, Middle High German, Italian, and Latin. These stories brought Marie de France in to the 21st century. For Marie de France her lais are writein in octosyllabic couplets.Her Lais have a "Cletic motif" and host a woman as the main character. These women are the ones who launch the story and resolve the conflict in the end. Each of Marie de France's Lai's are a criticism to the Feaudal, Midevial Court. This is done through the characters (both men and women) suffering in love. These stories cause the reader to create an interpertiation of both the meaing of the stoy and their own connection to what it is speaking out about.

 

 

 

Cheverfoil or  The Lai of the Honeysuckle

 

This is Marie de France's shortest lai. This lai goes off of the long known myth of Tristian and Isolt. Within this lai Tristian comes back from banishment only to find out that his love Isolt is going back with her husband when they meet by the honeysuckle and the hazle trees that are joined as one. This lai shows the joy of love through them meeting and the pain of seperation through their departure. Along with the amplification of greif caused by love.

 

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