6/24/2023 0 Comments The lais of marie de france![]() ![]() ![]() Before moving into related content, the author would like to express his gratitude to David Raybin for his assistance in bringing this entry to its conclusion. Discussion of the authenticity of this work is ongoing. In recent times, a fourth work, the Vie seinte Audree, has been attributed to Marie see McCash and Barban’s The Life of Saint Audrey: A Text by Marie de France (2006). de Roquefort published in 1819–1820 what he considered to be Marie’s complete works, he added a third work, the Espurgatoire seint Patriz, which, in spite of a few misgivings expressed by scholars from time to time, has generally been accepted as her work. Marie was known to Fauchet only for her Fables, but in modern times her most prominent work is the Lais, a collection of twelve narrative lays composed perhaps as early as the 1160s, but certainly before the death of Henry II in 1189. The name Marie de France was coined in 1581 by Claude Fauchet in his Recueil de l’origine de la langue et poesie françoise (Book II, item LXXXIIII). ![]() One of the first recorded female authors in European literature, Marie owes her name to a statement in the Epilogue to her Fables: “Marie ai nun, si sui de France” (line 4). ![]()
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