Lais
- Authors
- France, Marie de
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- littérature française , classics , poetry , poésie médiévale
- ISBN
- 9780140447590
- Date
- 1160-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.20 MB
- Lang
- fr
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de
France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at
Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey
Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a
king, and probably Henry II, that she dedicated these poems of adventure and
love which were retellings of stories which she had heard from Breton
minstrels. She is regarded as the most talented French poet of the medieval
period.