Warnke ed., Die Lais der Marie de France, Halle, 1900 Hoepfïner, Les Lais, p. Marie de France, General Prologue to the Lais, v. Busby ed., The Lais de Marie de France, New York, 1986, p. Lejeune, «Le Rôle littéraire d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine », in Littérature et société occitane au moyen-âge, Liège, 1979, p. Hoepiïner, Les Lais de Marie de France, Paris, 1935, p. Indeed Marie is often hailed as France's 'first' woman of letters. I am especially grateful to the Camargo Foundation, for providing me with a residential fellowship during the fall semester 2005, which enabled me to write this essay.Ģ. I would like to express my thanks here to the library of the Romanisches Seminar in Göttingen, where, during the summer of 2005, 1 carried out much of the additional research that was required to substantiate my initial hypotheses. This article developed from a paper that I gave at the 2005 International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. The engraved stick in Chievrefueil conveys a message of love 4, as does theġ. She was familiar with the courtly practice of exchanging love-letters. Moreover, she regarded it as her privilege, her responsibility even, to transmit her learning, both to her contemporaries and to posterity 3.īut Marie de France was a woman of letters in another way, too. She carried in her memory stories of Celtic origin that she had heard in her youth. She had access to a variety of written texts, including fables, saints' lives, the works of Ovid, vernacular romances, and, I would argue, troubadour poems. She not only knew Latin, she was something of a polyglot, apparently conversant in English and Breton as well as her native French. Marie de France was a woman of letters 2.

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