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Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvGlyn S. Burgess,Leslie C. Brook

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This prose translation of twenty-four lays from the French Middle Ages brings to the general reader as well as to scholars a complement to the twelve well-known lays by Marie de France, the possible creator of the genre. These lays are mostly anonymous, and the majority, but by no means all of them, are, like Marie’s lays, centred on a love interest of some kind in a variety of settings. But, unlike Marie’s lays, their treatment varies from the courtly and sophisticated to the comic or the tragic, thereby illustrating the range of poems covered by the term lai in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. A significant number of these lays, based in the courtly world, contain supernatural elements or magic objects that are fundamental to the story as it is related, and sometimes the heroes leave the real world to dwell forever in an otherworldly domain. Other lays have a more mundane feel to them and seem closer to the fabliau in tone. In one instance, the lay of Haveloc, the tale owes more to legendary history than to pure fantasy. Overall, this collection stakes a claim to make an important contribution to the Medieval French lay within the wider European tradition of the short story and the literature of love.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-12-06
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieExeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Antal sidor288
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781781383377

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Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. His Penguin Classics edition of The Lais of Marie de France has sold more than 150,000 copies. He is co-author of The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (with Douglas Kelly, D. S. Brewer, 2017). In 1999 he was made a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques and he is an Honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society. Leslie Brook is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham

General IntroductionManuscriptsMagic and Mystery1. Melion2. Tyolet3. Graelent4. Guingamor5. Desiré6. Doon7. Espine8. Tydorel9. TrotFun and Games10. Mantel11. Cor12. Aristote13. Lecheor14. Ignaure15. Oiselet16. Espervier17. NabaretPassion and Tears18. Piramus and Thisbe19. Narcisus and DanéRomance and Realism20. The Chastelaine de Vergi21. The Lai de l’Ombre22. Amours23. ConseilThe Lay as History24. HavelocBibliographyIndex of Proper Names

'[Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages] will no doubt result in new perspectives for any English speaking researcher interested in medieval literature... We can only applaud the work done to give more visibility and accessibility to texts that actually deserve more attention, both from specialists than a wider audience.'Virgile Reiter, Cahiers de civilisation médiévaleTranslated from French,'[Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages] qui entraînera sans doute de nouvelles perspectives pour tout chercheur anglophone s’intéressant à la littérature médiévale... Nous ne pouvons effectivement qu’applaudir le travail fourni pour donner plus de visibilité et d’accessibilité à des textes qui méritent effectivement plus d’attention, aussi bien de la part des spécialistes que d’un public plus large.'