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Offers a reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman referred to as Marie de France in contemporary times. This book considers almost 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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"After eight centuries of tenebrous obscurity, France's first woman poet once again emerges into the light." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

The Anonymous Marie de France

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    A Paperback / softback by R. Howard Bloch

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/05/2006
      ISBN13: 9780226059846, 978-0226059846
      ISBN10: 0226059847

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman referred to as Marie de France in contemporary times. This book considers almost all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular, Saint Patrick's Purgatory.

      Trade Review
      "After eight centuries of tenebrous obscurity, France's first woman poet once again emerges into the light." - Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"

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