Making Your Memory Mine: Marie de France and the Adventures of the Bretons

The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France undertook to preserve for posterity the adventures and romances embodied in a vanishing genre, the old Breton lais as she had heard them recounted by minstrels. That she succeeded is evidenced by the popularity of these lais for more than eight h...

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Main Author: Jeffrey S. Longard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta 2016-07-01
Series:TranscUlturAl
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Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/tc/index.php/TC/article/view/28009/20613