Claire Waters, a professor of English at the University of California Davis, who specializes in medieval religious literature and culture.
To provide insight into the mysteries of Marie's life and work, we called in Dr. These poems were the Lais, a collection of twelve narrative poems based on Breton folklore, which continue to loom large in the pantheon of medieval literature. Through great works of construction and community, Abbess Marie fashions the now-wealthy and influential abbey into an “island of women,” all while furtively writing the divinely-inspired poems that made her name. In Groff's version of events, cast out from the court by her sometimes-lover Eleanor of Acquitaine, seventeen-year-old Marie washes up at an impoverished English abbey, where she transforms from a reluctant resident to a fiercely devoted leader. In Matrix, Groff imagines her way into the life and lore of Marie. Esquire Fiction: 'Snake Stories' by Lauren Groff.
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