The Question and Answer section for The Lais of Marie de France is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
As is the case with Marie de France herself, very little is known about her collection of lays, including for whom or why they were written, and whether they were even intended to be presented as a unified collection. The date of composition has...
Marie de France is not a feminist, an antifeminist, a woman who supports the code of chivalry, nor a woman who opposes the code of chivalry.
Marie's greatest literary accomplishment in the Lais is the way she celebrates the chivalrous court culture of her day while subtly and consistently lambasting it. The search for fame and self-glorification works in direct contrast to the charity...
