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The Anonymous Marie de France.

This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bloch, R. Howard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Note on Texts; Introduction; 1. The Word Aventure and the Adventure of Words; 2. If Words Could Kill: The Lais and Fatal Speech; 3. The Voice in the Tomb of the Lais; 4. Beastly Talk: The Fables; 5. Changing Places: The Fables and Social Mobility at the Court of Henry II; 6. Marie's Fables and the Rise of the Monarchic State; 7. A Medieval "Best Seller"; 8. Between Fable and Romance; 9. The Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ireland and the Colonization of the Afterlife; Conclusion; Notes; Index.