The complete online text of French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France.

The French poet Marie de France (active late 12th century) was an accomplished writer of lais and was probably the originator of that form. Marie de France is one of those authors whose work is well known but whose life is largely conjectural. Her status...

A poet, storyteller, and translator who clearly establishes her ambitions and credentials on the side of the moderns, Marie de France is one of the finest writers of the twelfth-century Renaissance and the first woman poet whose name has come down throug...

Marie de France; Lais, ed. (and trans.) Philippe Walter (Paris: Gallimard, 2000). 484 pp. ISBN 2-07-040543-5. F. Fr. 40.00. This edition, published in the Folio Classique series, is clearly aimed at the student or general reader. The introduction covers such topics as...

DESPITE the global marketplace, satellite television, European integration, and countless other inducements to homogeneity, there is a section of France, the southwest, that steadfastly resists that trend. It retains its mediaeval air in a plenitude of Romanesque churches, castles, town walls, domestic buildings,...