Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. His Penguin Classics edition of The Lais of Marie de France has sold more than 150,000 copies. He is co-author of The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (with Douglas Kelly, D. S. Brewer, 2017). In 1999 he was made a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques and he is an Honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society. Douglas Kelly was Emeritus Professor of French and Medieval Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was co-author of The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (with Glyn Burgess, D. S. Brewer, 2017) and an Honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society.

‘The translations themselves combine the virtues of being usable as a crib with being as fluent as is possible… If they encourage a wider readership for these romances, as they surely will, that is very much to the good.’ Helen Cooper, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen

• Preface AcknowledgementsManuscriptsEditions and TranslationsIntroductionThe Roman de ThèbesOutline of the PlotTranslationThe Roman d’EneasOutline of the PlotTranslationAppendixBibliographyIndexes of Personal and Geographical Names

Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. His Penguin Classics edition of The Lais of Marie de France has sold more than 150,000 copies. He is co-author of The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (with Douglas Kelly, D. S. Brewer, 2017). In 1999 he was made a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques and he is an Honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society. Douglas Kelly was Emeritus Professor of French and Medieval Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was co-author of The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (with Glyn Burgess, D. S. Brewer, 2017) and an Honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society.

‘The translations themselves combine the virtues of being usable as a crib with being as fluent as is possible… If they encourage a wider readership for these romances, as they surely will, that is very much to the good.’ Helen Cooper, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen

• Preface AcknowledgementsManuscriptsEditions and TranslationsIntroductionThe Roman de ThèbesOutline of the PlotTranslationThe Roman d’EneasOutline of the PlotTranslationAppendixBibliographyIndexes of Personal and Geographical Names