The International Marie de France Society has organized two panels for the 16th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society to be held July 22-27 at the University of Exeter. For more information on the Congress, click here.
MARIE DE FRANCE I:
Kids, Cloth, Clothing, and Connections: Complex Communities in Marie de France
- “It Takes a Village: Lactation and Childcare Communities in Marie de France’s Lais,” Miriam Rheingold Fuller
- “Talking Textiles: Marie de France’s Le Fresne as Feminist Philomela,” Susan Hopkirk
- “Fables and Lays: Constructing Community Through Carnivalesque Clothes,” Monica L. Wright
- “Fessebouc or Social Networking in the Ysopet of Marie de France,” Tamara Bentley Caudill
MARIE DE FRANCE II:
Marie and the Afterlife: Religious Communities and Textual Transformations
- “Thigh wounds, chastity surveillance, and gender ambiguity: Jewish-Christian Exegetical Exchange and Marie’s “Jewish” Knight in Guigemar,” Regula Meyer Evitt
- “Community, Liturgy, and Authorship in Marie’s Vie seinte Audree,” Donna Alfano Bussell
- “Marie de France and the Community of Lays in ms. S (Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. fr. 1104),” Logan E. Whalen
- “Sing me to the End of Love: Marie’s Avian Messengers in Modern Welsh and Greek Song,” Christopher Callahan
