Talk:Marie de France

message: She was Thomas Becket's sister. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.10.131.184 (talk) 13:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  End of the story 

message: I hope so that Marie de France is  Saint Thomas Beckett'sister, Mary of Barking.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.200.65.82 (talk) 16:09, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mary of France or Marie de Barking?

message: This article says she wrote in continental Old French which was transcribed by Anglo-Norman scribes, but other articles (The Lais of Marie de France, Guigemar) say that the poems were "written" in Anglo-Norman.  The introduction to my GF-Flammarion edition of the Lais says explicitly, "elle écrit en anglo-normand".  Widsith (talk) 15:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language 

message: We are working on a project for our English Literature class at the State University at New Paltz on the influential poet, Marie de France. Our project is to edit an existing page by adding more information about the poet. For Marie de France we will be adding a few sections of controversies about her, her influence on literature and how each of her lais shows us the idea of romance and the progression of romance through lust to the love for God and how women are usually vilified as well as also glorified. If you have any questions contact us, our usernames are JaimieMag, Christilee22, MPignataro. You can also contact our professor, RedCKnight.JaimieMag (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Page Proposal

message: I am removing the section "Women in the Middle Ages", partially because it reads like something from a not very good school essay (e.g. "Her works were not just some rubbish written down, they were good stories that an average person could not just come up with randomly."), and partially because Wikipedia already has an article on Women in the Middle Ages.  There's no need to cram a summary of the subject into an article about a specific person, especially since this section says nothing about Marie de France herself that isn't stated elsewhere in the article. CKarnstein (talk) 21:06, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Women in the Middle Ages

message: Something difficult to understand by foreigners. France is a modern nation, that can't be identify to an ethny in the French meaning of the word. It was not the case in the middle-ages. Nobody today would call "Englishman" a Scotsman. It was the same thing in the mainland of the Plantagenets and later until the end of the Middle Ages. France meant Île-de-France and French "François" was an inhabitant of Île-de-France. A sentence among others in Chanson de Roland is absolutly significant about it : "Baivier e Saisne sunt alet à cunseill, e Peitevin e Norman e Franceis; asez i as Alemans e Tiedeis." (Saxons et Bavarians came and hold a meeting, with the Poitevins (people from Poitou), the Normans and the French people. the Alemannic people and the Lorraine (or Flemish) people were numerous too. With the same logic, if such people were present, it could have been written Bretons, Angevins, Gascons, etc. too.
The "French" language was called Romanz (Romance): cf. Wace : "Se l'on demande qui ço dist,qui ceste estoire en romanz fist, jo di e dirai que jo sui Wace de l'isle de Gersui" (if we ask who wrote this story in "French", I say and I will say I am Wace from Jersey). If Marie de France wrote she was from France : it probably means that she was from Ile-de-France. Nortmannus (talk) 16:04, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  France 

message: Richard asr (talk) 11:54, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedited 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: The Middle Ages