Canterbury Tales: The Clerk's Tale
This story is of a man who is forced to wed someone to provide an heir. The marquis Walter sets his eye on peasant Griselda, who at the...
Chevrefoil
This is one of her shorter lais that ties in the romance of a Queen and a banished man. The crime with which he committed was that he...
Chaitivel
The lai Chaitivel is a love story that is to good to be true. At the hearing of her love for the four knights and their love back, I was...
Laustic
In this lai by Marie de France, she illustrates some of the fairy tale aspects that are persistent in the medieval realm of literature....
Yonec
This lai is a traditional knight in shining armour idea but in that, he did not have to make a long and grueling quest. De France shows...
Lanval
This was one of the easier reads because I knew where it was going. The part that struck me in this reading was that loyalty was a huge...
Bisclavret
De France gives us a perspective into the medieval romance with betrayal and supernatural beings involved within this lai. The way the...
Relating de France to Medieval Marriages
To keep a family's place in society meant that the parents would go out and find their son or daughter a rightful partner to keep the...
Le Fresne
How does a mother rid of her newborns? In Le Fresne, she gives no reason as to why this has come to be. Killing people is no joke and...
Marie de France
Marie de France was one of the earliest French woman poets, if not the first one. She lived in England to write. She was known for her...
