The Anonymous Marie de France

by R. Howard Bloch

Book Overview

The Anonymous Marie de France offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as 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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226059847
• ISBN13: 9780226059846
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"