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Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages
Glyn S. Burgess
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Description for Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages
Hardcover. The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry. Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 300 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
This prose translation of twenty-four lays from the French Middle Ages brings to the general reader as well as to scholars a complement to the twelve well-known lays by Marie de France, the possible creator of the genre. These lays are mostly anonymous, and the majority, but by no means all of them, are, like Marie’s lays, centred on a love interest of some kind in a variety of settings. But, unlike Marie’s lays, their treatment varies from the courtly and sophisticated to the comic or the tragic, thereby illustrating the range of poems covered by the term lai in ... Read more
This prose translation of twenty-four lays from the French Middle Ages brings to the general reader as well as to scholars a complement to the twelve well-known lays by Marie de France, the possible creator of the genre. These lays are mostly anonymous, and the majority, but by no means all of them, are, like Marie’s lays, centred on a love interest of some kind in a variety of settings. But, unlike Marie’s lays, their treatment varies from the courtly and sophisticated to the comic or the tragic, thereby illustrating the range of poems covered by the term lai in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781383360
SKU
V9781781383360
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About Glyn S. Burgess
Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. His Penguin Classics edition of The Lais of Marie de France has sold more than 150,000 copies. He is co-author of The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (with Douglas Kelly, D. S. Brewer, 2017). In 1999 he was made a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques and ... Read more
Reviews for Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages
Reviews 'With this volume, and the projects which have preceded it, Burgess and Brook are to be congratulated for their work in ensuring greater prominence for these lays, and in widening resources for use in comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship.' Alison Williams, Modern Language Review 'This volume is suitable for use in the classroom as well as for enjoyment by the ... Read more