Twenty-Four Lays From the French Middle Ages

The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry.

About the author

Leslie Brook is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. His Penguin Classics edition of The Lais of Marie de France has sold more than 150,000 copies.

Summary

The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Brook, Leslie C. Brook, Glyn S Burgess, Glyn S. Burgess, Glyn S. Brook Burgess, Glyn S. C. Brook Burgess, Leslie C Brook, Leslie C. Brook
• Assisted by: Leslie Brook (Translation), Glyn S Burgess (Translation), Glyn S. Burgess (Translation)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781781383377
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-337-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe; Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe; Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages