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Marie De France

Marie De France. Marie de France a woman of French origin writing in England in the later decades of the twelfth century. widely educated, and in touch with the royal court. She dedicates her book of Lais to a "noble King" who was probably Henry II. Marie De France.

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Marie De France

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  1. Marie De France • Marie de France a woman of French origin writing in England in the later decades of the twelfth century. • widely educated, and in touch with the royal court. • She dedicates her book of Lais to a "noble King" who was probably Henry II

  2. Marie De France • she may have been his kinswoman, possibly an illegitimate half-sister • She rewrote a Latin narrative about the origin of "Saint Patrick's Purgatory“ • Marie brings a quite different and rather critical set of preoccupations to her Arthurian story

  3. Marie De France • it's thought that her twelve Lais date from around 1170, that their author was a woman named Marie who also wrote a rhymed collection of Aesop's Fables • Marie de France's Lais were read in her own time • she was part of a generation of writers who were in the process of inventing the French verse romance. Her verse form is the octosyllabic couplet: eight-syllable lines in rhyming pairs.

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