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French poetry --- Lays --- Folk songs --- Poetry --- Tales --- Old French poetry --- Rhétoriqueurs (Group of poets)
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Lays --- Arthurian romances --- French poetry --- Lais --- Cycle d'Arthur --- Poésie française --- -Knights and knighthood --- -Lays --- Middle Ages --- -Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Folk songs --- Poetry --- Tales --- Knighthood --- Nobility --- Chivalry --- Heraldry --- Orders of knighthood and chivalry --- French literature --- Romances --- History --- Arthurian romances. --- Knights and knighthood --- Lays. --- Poetry. --- -Poetry --- -Folk songs --- Dark Ages --- Poésie française --- Old French poetry --- Rhétoriqueurs (Group of poets)
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The twelve “lays” of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavitt. Traditional Breton folktales were the raw material for Marie de France’s series of lively but profound considerations of love, life, death, fidelity and betrayal, and luck and fate. They offer acute observations about the choices that women make, startling in the late twelfth century and challenging even today. Combining a woman’s wisdom with an impressive technical bravura, the lays are a minor treasure of European culture.
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Marie de France --- Amour courtois dans la littérature --- Amour dans la littérature --- Chevalerie dans la littérature --- Chivalry in literature --- Courtly love in literature --- Hoofse liefde in de literatuur --- Liefde in de literatuur --- Love in literature --- Ridderwezen in de literatuur --- Lays --- -Love in literature --- Folk songs --- French poetry --- Poetry --- Tales --- History and criticism --- Chivalry in literature. --- Courtly love in literature. --- Love in literature. --- History and criticism. --- María de Francia --- Marie, --- Marie, de France, 12th cent. Lais. --- Lays - History and criticism.
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Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine's worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south of France in the 1860's, spread throughout Europe, and journeyed across oceans to Africa, South America, Australia, and California-laying waste to vineyards wherever it landed. He tells how scientists, viticulturalists, researchers, and others came together to save the world's vineyards and, with years of observation and research, developed a strategy of resistance. Among other topics, the book discusses phylloxera as an important case study of how one invasive species can colonize new habitats and examines California's past and present problems with it.
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Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950's and 1970's, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the population relied on commercial formula to at least supplement a breastfeeding routine. So how is it that most of those bottle-fed babies grew up to believe that breast, and only breast, is best? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication, Wolf writes, the conviction that breastfeeding provides babies unique health benefits and that formula feeding is a risky substitute is unsubstantiated by the evidence. In accessible prose, Wolf argues that a public obsession with health and what she calls “total motherhood” has made breastfeeding a cause célèbre, and that public discussions of breastfeeding say more about infatuation with personal responsibility and perfect mothering in America than they do about the concrete benefits of the breast. Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? Parsing the rhetoric of expert advice, including the recent National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign, and rigorously questioning the scientific evidence, Wolf uncovers a path by which a mother can feel informed and confident about how best to feed her thriving infant—whether flourishing by breast or by bottle.
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