The Anonymous Marie de France.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht berieben, Knicke im Buchr�cken, Hinterdeckel weist kleine Verschmutzungen auf, Kopfschnitt minimal angeschmutzt, sonst guter Zustand / lightly rubbed, creases in spine, back cover has minor soiling, top edge minimally soiled, otherwise good condition. - The Anonymous Marie de France takes a closer look at the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French�Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Marie is, Bloch asserts, one of the most self-conscious, sophisticated, and disturbing figures of her time�a writer whose works reveal an acute awareness not only of her role in the preservation of cultural memory, but also of the transformative psychological, social, and political effects of her writing within an oral tradition. Winner of the prestigious Scaglione Prize, The Anonymous Marie de France recovers the central achievements of one of the founding figures in French literature. It is a study that will be of enormous value to medievalists, literary scholars, historians of France, and anyone interested in the advent of female authorship / Contents Acknowledgments Note on Texts Introduction Chapter one The Word Aventure and the Adventure of Words Aventure Lai History, Philology, and the Quest for Origins The Obligation to Speak The Will to Remember �Guigemar� Chapter two If Words Could Kill: The Lais and Fatal Speech Marie mal mari��Lanval� and �Laiistic� �Equitan� and �Le Fresne� �Bisclavret� Chapter three The Voice in the Tomb of the Lais �Eliduc� �Les Deus Amanz� and �Chaitivel� �Milun� and �Chevrefoil� �Yonec� Chapter four Beastly Talk: The Fables The Fables and the Lais Speech Acts in the Fables An Ethics of Language Chapter FIVE Changing Places: The Fablesand Social Mobility at the Court of Henry II Scholasticism and the Fables Abelardian Ethics Appetite and Envy Logic and the Body Changing Habitat Social Mobility Chapter six Marie�s Fables and the Rise of the Monarchic State Right Reason and the Moral Town and Court and Royal Peace Measure, Timing, and Alertness Maries Social Contract Chapter seven A Medieval Best Seller Chivalric Adventure Doors In and Out of the Otherworld In and Out of Another Tongue Making the Dead Speak Chapter eight Between Fable and Romance Making the Dead See Testimony and Transcription Genesis of the Tale Remembering What the Dead Have Said and Seen Chapter nine The Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ireland and the Colonization of the Afterlife Patrick the Administrator The Norman and Irish Peace Movement Ecclesiastical Reform and the Cistercian Presence The Civil Governance of Captured Land The Invention of Purgatory and the Bureaucratization of the Afterlife Purgatory and the Law Conclusion Notes Index. ISBN 9780226059846