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  • Chapter 18 - Marie de France

  • from V - Women as Authors
  • Edited by Corinne Saunders, Durham University, Diane Watt, University of Surrey
  • Book:
    Women and Medieval Literary Culture
    Published online:
    28 July 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 379-399

  • Summary

    This essay focuses on the writer today known as ߢMarie de Franceߣ, who is among the earliest named women authors in French and England. Yet, we cannot be certain the same author composed all of the Anglo-Norman French works conventionally ascribed to her. Campbell asks what it might it mean to see ߢMarieߣ less as an exceptional female author and more as an example of a multilingual culture of womenߣs writing and translation. A critical focus on Marie as unique, Campbell argues, downplays the reliance of the works attributed to her on translation, and their connection to an Anglo-Norman literary culture in which women were active participants. The essay also explores the networks and translations depicted within Marieߣs works, and the ways in which these comment on the processes of composition and transmission to which translation is central. Characterised by collaboration, translation, intertextuality, and multilingualism, womenߣs literary culture is shown to challenge traditional notions of authorship.