Abbreviated Style and Les Lais de Marie de France

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• “L'amplification est la grande chose; elle est la principale fonction de l'écrivain” 61 Faral
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• Marie makes use of amplification, for instance, in the prologue to her Lais. It can be read as expolitio.
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• The Latin verb . tractare did not originally have so specific a meaning and was used in connection with narratio in classical usage
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• The (Tullii) Rhetorica cited by Geoffrey is of course the Rhetorica ad Herennium, which was attributed to Cicero in medieval sources. I cite [Cicero] ad C. Herennium de ratione dicendi, with English translation by Harry Caplan, Loeb Classical Library (1954; Harvard University Press, 1977) for all references to this key work
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• The following description of narratio is based on Ad Her., I, viii-ix
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