This ballet, now in work, is inspired by the collection made in thirteenth century by Gautier de Coincy, a monk of St. Médard, near Soissons. The work is composed of three independent parts, each of them can be represented separately.
...The stories had been brought together from various sources , the East supplying many of the themes. In France, in the Middle Ages, the cult of the Virgin formes the great religious, just as the cult of woman formed the great social, movement. Religion and chiivalry joined hands.
"For Our Lady", or "For God and my Lady", was the cry as men hurled themselves into the thickest of the flight. And with this close onterchange of idea a change gradually came in man's conception, the Goddess becoming humanised, the women deified. This idea of the humanity of the Virgin became the fundamental theme of religous thought, modifying life, art and literature.
After Alice KEMP - WELCH
Gautier de Coinci
