~ "The Inscription of a New Audience: Marie de France's Espurgatoire Saint Patriz"
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/RLA-Archive/1993/French-html/Leonard%2CBonnie.htm
Bonnie H. Leonard, looks at the Prologue, the Epilogue, and those passages not found in the original Latin work, to show
Marie's appeal to her lay aristocratic audience.
~ "Rethinking Marie"
http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/Volume2/Hazell.html
(2003) Dinah Hazell, questions the assumption that Marie lived in England and considers
what an alternative view would reveal about her self-descriptions and dedications.
~ "The French Woman Writer in the Middle Ages: Staying Up Late"
http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol7/sankovi.html
(1990) Tilde Sankovitch, presents the prologue to the lais as Marie's way of establishing her and her text's authority.
Sankovitch gives the original and her translation of all quotations.
~ "Narration and Representation of Women in the Lais of Marie de France and the Coutumes de Beauvaisis
of Philippe de Beaumanoir"
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/57.2/articles/root.asp
(2003) Jerry Root, looks at the lais in the light of what is revealed about the role of women in a French jurist's
1283 collection of customary law.
~ "Objects, Possession and Identity in the Lais of Marie de France"
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/RLA-Archive/1994/French-html/Warren%2CNancyBradley.htm
(1994) Nancy Bradley Warren, shows how the lais' characters are described and what this reveals of their world.
~ "The Making of the Man: Woman as Consummator in the Lais of Marie
de France"
http://alpha1.fmarion.edu/~scmlr/barban.htm
(2002) Judith Barban, looks at Marie's treatment of men and of women in five of the lais; Barban sees the women as contolling
forces in the movement of each tale.
~ "Woman-hating in Marie de France's 'Bisclavret'"
http://www.24hourscholar.com/p/articles/mi_qa3806/is_200205/ai_n9034881
(2002) Paul Creamer provides a close reading of the lai and its treatment of the female character, and he finds
the poem differing from its companions in its misogyny.
~ "Adultery and Kingship in Marie de France's 'Equitan'"
http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol16/kinoshta.html
(1999) Sharon Kinoshita, discusses not only the one lai, but also contemporary
views of marriage.
~ "Wholism and Fusion: Success in/of the Lais of Marie de France"
http://laurentian.ca/engl/ARACHNE/VOL51/WILSON.HTM
