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Marie de France (12th c. - 12th c.)

Little is known of Marie beyond her three extant works, the Lais, Fables, and Saint Patrick's Purgatory.

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Criticism about Marie de France

International Marie de France Society

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~cmarecha/

A remarkably comprehensive and well-organized site on the 12th century poet. Offers links to a vast range of web resources on Marie, as well as bibliographies of print materials.

Contains: Full Bio, Commentary, Webliography, Bibliography, Works List, Criticism

Author: Chantal Marechal

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Marie de France

http://www.ce.mun.ca/dcs/courses/ms3351/mariedefrance.html

This site links to many online texts by the poet, in both English and French.

Contains: Webliography, Works Available

Author: Catherine Innes-Parker and Judith Shoaf

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Biographical sites about Marie de France

Marie de France

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09667a.htm

A biographical piece on the poet and her works from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Contains: Extensive Bio, Works List

Author: P.J. Marique

From: The Catholic Encyclopedia copyright © 1913 by the Encyclopedia Press, Inc. Electronic version copyright © 1997 by New Advent, Inc.

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Other sites about Marie de France

Breton Lays

http://www.bartleby.com/211/1310.html

Description and commentary of Marie de France's genre: ÒBreton lays are nearer than other romances to the popular beliefs outof which romantic marvels are drawn, and they retain something oftheir freshnessÓ

Contains: Commentary

From: Bartleby.com The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907Ð21).Volume I. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance.

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Adultery and Kingship in Marie de France's Equitan

http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol16/kinoshta.html

"In medieval French literature, the conventional plot of courtly love focuses on the figure of the queen. As the highest ranking woman in the land, she is the natural feminine object of male heterosexual desire--a desire heightened by the social and symbolic distance that sets her apart as unapproachable and forbidding..."

Author: Sharon Kinoshita

From: Loyola University Chicago Essays in Medieval Studies

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Anglo-Norman Influences II: The Lais of Marie de France

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl203/lais.html

General background to the period and the lais; study questions on someof the lais.

Contains: Commentary

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