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Lanval

Lanval. Marie de France. I. Marie de France (c12th?) II. Breton Lais III. Lais of Marie de France (c. 1160) IV. Ecclesiastical attitudes to the vernacular V. Rewriting the courtly romance A. Marie's themes B. Lanval and the Arthurian Tradition C. Role of women.

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Lanval

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  1. Lanval • Marie de France

  2. I. Marie de France (c12th?) II. Breton Lais III. Lais of Marie de France (c. 1160) IV. Ecclesiastical attitudes to the vernacular V. Rewriting the courtly romance A. Marie's themes B. Lanval andthe Arthurian Tradition C. Role of women

  3. I. Marie de France (c12th?)

  4. Assoc. with the court of Henry II (1154—1189) and Eleanor of Aquitaine in England • court spoke French • Marie the first known woman writer in French • Anglo-Norman spellings

  5. Three Genres: • Lais • Fables • hagiography

  6. II. Breton Lais: poetic and musical form popular among the poets ( trouvères ) of northern France

  7. III. Lais of Marie de France (c. 1160): A collection of twelve short narrative tales with an introduction, composed in Old French (Anglo-Norman) in eight-syllable rhyming couplets

  8. IV. Ecclesiastical attitudes to the vernacular

  9. V. Rewriting the courtly romance A. Marie's themes B. Lanval andthe Arthurian Tradition C. Role of women http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cammenu.htm

  10. Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898), "How Queen Guenever Rode on Maying" from: Malory, Sir Thomas.The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/abmaying.htm

  11. Lady Godiva (1898) by John Collier (1850 - 1934) http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/godiva.html

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