Current Search: Marie, de France, 12th cent (x)
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L' Epouse adultere dans les "Lais" de Marie de France.
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Creator
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Piguet, Therese E., Florida Atlantic University, Durling, Nancy Vine
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Abstract/Description
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L'analyse du comportement de la femme adultere et l'etude des consequences de sa conduite permettent une interpretation en coherence avec les idees du prologue general de l'oeuvre. La dame, dans les poemes, appartient bien au monde reel de la societe aristocratique du XIIe siecle. Malgre la presence de signes de compassion pour les epouses "mal mariees," Marie condamne l'adultere feminin, la conduite deraisonnable de l'epouse et son manque de "mesure." Elle signale les dangers de certains...
Show moreL'analyse du comportement de la femme adultere et l'etude des consequences de sa conduite permettent une interpretation en coherence avec les idees du prologue general de l'oeuvre. La dame, dans les poemes, appartient bien au monde reel de la societe aristocratique du XIIe siecle. Malgre la presence de signes de compassion pour les epouses "mal mariees," Marie condamne l'adultere feminin, la conduite deraisonnable de l'epouse et son manque de "mesure." Elle signale les dangers de certains usages de la fin'amors et rappelle discretement aux epouses infideles les risques de peine de mort qu'elles encourent. La poetesse reste fidele a une ethique religieuse vis-a-vis du mariage, de la fin'amors et de l'adultere. Elle idealise l'epouse du XIIe siecle en la personne de Guideluec, qu'elle presente a bon escient dans le lai final de son oeuvre.
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Date Issued
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1994
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15005
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Subject Headings
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Marie,--de France,--12th cent--Lais, Lays--History and criticism, Courtly love in literature, Marie,--de France,--12th cent--Criticism and interpretation
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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Title
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Le mariage et la maternitâe chez Marie de France.
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Firmino Palazzolo, Danielle., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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Abstract/Description
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Twelfth century French feudal culture witnesses the codification of new marriage laws and a rapid rise in popularity of the Cult of the Virgin Mary, with correspondingly renewed attention being paid to women by ecclesiastical intellectuals of all sects. Of particular interest to these churchmen was the duty of the medieval wife to bear children. The Lais of Marie de France, a late twelfth-century text, often focus explicitly on motherhood (both biological and symbolic) and therefore allow a...
Show moreTwelfth century French feudal culture witnesses the codification of new marriage laws and a rapid rise in popularity of the Cult of the Virgin Mary, with correspondingly renewed attention being paid to women by ecclesiastical intellectuals of all sects. Of particular interest to these churchmen was the duty of the medieval wife to bear children. The Lais of Marie de France, a late twelfth-century text, often focus explicitly on motherhood (both biological and symbolic) and therefore allow a deeper examination of the new cultural representations of women in the dual role of spouse and mother. The Lais further highlight the symbolic role of the child as guarantor both of a woman's social value and of the validity of the love relationship based on the tenets of fin'amors instead of formal marriage.
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Date Issued
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2009
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2182086
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Subject Headings
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Cult, History, History and criticism, Women, Women in Christianity, Social conditions, History
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Document (PDF)
