The Anonymous Marie De France

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Pub. Date: 2006-05-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

The Anonymous Marie de Franceoffers 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. Marie is, Bloch asserts, one of the most self-conscious, sophisticated, and disturbing figures of her timea writer whose works reveal an acute awareness not only of her role in the preservation of cultural memory, but also of the transformative psychological, social, and political effects of her writing within an oral tradition. The Anonymous Marie de Francerecovers the central achievements of one of the most pivotal figures in French literature. It is a study that will be of enormous value to medievalists, literary scholars, historians of France, and anyone interested in the advent of female authorship.

Author Biography

R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University and the author of God’s Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne, also published by the University of Chicago Press.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Texts xi
Introduction 1(24)
CHAPTER ONE The Word Aventure and the Adventure of Words 25(26)
Aventure
26(3)
Lai
29(3)
History, Philology, and the Quest for Origins
32(4)
The Obligation to Speak
36(3)
The Will to Remember
39(3)
"Guigemar"
42(9)
CHAPTER TWO If Words Could Kill: The Lais and Fatal Speech 51(32)
Marie mal mariée
57(11)
"Lanval" and "Laüistic"
68(6)
"Equitan" and "Le Fresne"
74(5)
"Bisclavret"
79(4)
CHAPTER THREE The Voice in the Tomb of the Lais 83(28)
"Eliduc"
83(6)
"Les Deus Amanz" and "Chaitivel"
89(9)
"Milun" and "Chevrefoil"
98(10)
"Yonec"
108(3)
CHAPTER FOUR Beastly Talk: The Fables 111(28)
The Fables and the Lais
112(7)
Speech Acts in the Fables
119(12)
An Ethics of Language
131(8)
CHAPTER FIVE Changing Places: The Fables and Social Mobility at the Court of Henry II 139(36)
Scholasticism and the Fables
141(8)
Abelardian Ethics
149(3)
Appetite and Envy
152(7)
Logic and the Body
159(4)
Changing Habitat
163(5)
Social Mobility
168(7)
CHAPTER SIX Marie's Fables and the Rise of the Monarchic State 175(31)
Right Reason and the Moral
181(6)
Town and Court and Royal Peace
187(5)
Measure, Timing, and Alertness
192(5)
Marie's Social Contract
197(9)
CHAPTER SEVEN A Medieval "Best Seller" 206(35)
Chivalric Adventure
209(16)
Doors In and Out of the Otherworld
225(4)
In and Out of Another Tongue
229(5)
Making the Dead Speak
234(7)
CHAPTER EIGHT Between Fable and Romance 241(26)
Making the Dead See
243(6)
Testimony and Transcription
249(6)
Genesis of the Tale
255(5)
Remembering What the Dead Have Said and Seen
260(7)
CHAPTER NINE The Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ireland and the Colonization of the Afterlife 267(44)
Patrick the Administrator
276(3)
The Norman and Irish Peace Movement
279(2)
Ecclesiastical Reform and the Cistercian Presence
281(3)
The Civil Governance of Captured Land
284(1)
The Invention of Purgatory and the Bureaucratization of the Afterlife
285(11)
Purgatory and the Law
296(15)
Conclusion 311(10)
Notes 321(36)
Index 357

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