Category: Le Cygne

In the past year the 2019 issue of Le Cygne has appeared. It contains four articles on the works of Marie de France and two editions taken from MS S of the Lais. Karen Casebier writes about two episodes from the natural world that are found in Eliduc, the storm and the incident involving the…

We are very pleased to announce that Le Cygne has been added to the new collection Lives of Literature, offered by JSTOR. According to JSTOR, Lives of Literature is a collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. When complete, Lives of Literature will include approximately 120 journals…

We are pleased to announce the publication of Le Cygne, Volume 5. It contains two articles, one by Katherine Pierpont, which examines the issue of disability and deformity in the works of Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France (with special reference to Bisclavret and Yonec), and the other by Matthieu Boyd, who examines three Breton…

For the second year in a row, Le Cygne will send out its annual issue in the early months of the new year.  Contributions are as follows: ARTICLES Beston, John. ” The Role of the Secretary Girart in the Old French Lay of Amours.” Brown, Brandy N. “A Hard Day’s Knight: The Journey to the Otherworld in…

We are in the process of digitizing and loading copies of Le Cygne: The Bulletin of the International Marie de France Society. This publication lasted three years (1995-1997) before being reinvented as Le Cygne: The Journal of the International Marie de France Society. They  will soon be available under the Archive tab.

Dear Members of the International Marie de France Society: We are very pleased to be able to announce that the latest issue of our journal, Le Cygne, has been printed and is currently being distributed (along with notices of dues, where appropriate). To avoid confusion and to create a new start for the journal, the…