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5. Marie de France’s Lais (12th century)

Intro

Readings:

Texts in translation:

• The Lais of Marie de France. Text and Translation. Ed. and trans. by Claire Waters. Broadview Press, 2018.
• (Optative) Le Roman de Silence. Edition: Silence : a thirteenth-century French romance. Ed. by Sarah Roche-Mahdi. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1992.

Studies

• Burgwinkle, William. “The marital and the sexual”. In: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature, ed. by Gaunt, Simon and Kay, Sarah, [Cambridge; New York], 2008, p.225-237.
• Crane, Susan. “Wolf, Man, and Wolf-Man.” In: Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, pp. 42-68.
• Michel Zink, “Chapter 5. Romance”. In: Medieval French Literature: An Introduction. Trans. Jeff Rider. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995, pp. 50-66.

Optative:

• Ronald Hutton. “I: The early Arthur: history and myth.” In: Archibald and Putter, Arthurian Legend, pp. 21-35.

Material culture to explore:

• https://fren341.academic.wlu.edu/manuscrits/

Digital resources to explore:

• http://romandelarose.blogspot.com/p/medieval-tiwtterature.html
• http://users.clas.ufl.edu/jshoaf/Marie/
• http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/middleages/topic_2/chretien.htm
• Roman de la Rose (Project Gutenberg)
• Lancelot http://biblioteka.kijowski.pl/chretien%20de%20troyes/lancelot-wsp.pdf
• Aucassin et Nicolette https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008974696;view=1up;seq=65;size=15
• Prologue, Equitan, Le Fresne, Bisclavret, Lanval, Yonec, Laustic, Chaltivel, Chèvrefeuille. https://people.clas.ufl.edu/jshoaf/marie_lais/

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