Debating the Roman de la rose : a critical anthology / edited by Christine McWebb ; introduction and Latin translations by Earl Jeffrey Richards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McWebb, Christine.

Richards, Earl Jeffrey.

Series:

Routledge medieval texts

Language:

English

French, Old (ca. 842-1300)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305. Roman de la rose.

Jean.

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.

Guillaume.

Romances--History and criticism.

Romances.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 446 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2007]

Summary:

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun's conjoined Roman de la rose (1236-1278) is without a doubt one of the foundational works of French medieval literature. We would be hard pressed to name a work that has enjoyed the same popularity and renown as the famous, or infamous, Roman de la rose, with over 300 extant manuscripts. This work has provoked much controversy, debate, and scholarship in the past as well as today.

Debating the Roman de la rose: A Critical Anthology recontextualizes the Roman by focusing on its reception from 1340 to 1410, thus broadening the framework of the Debate about the Roman de la rose (1401-1402) between Christine de Pizan, Jean de Montreuil, Gontier and Pierre Col, and Jean Gerson. In addition to making the excerpts and texts in question accessible to a French-and English-speaking public with double-faced editions and translations, this volume demonstrates that the epistolary exchange (or Debate) was but one element, albeit a crucial or perhaps the central one, in a much longer and more wide-ranging polemic surrounding this seminal text of the High Middle Ages. More precisely, this anthology provides the reader with a global and comprehensive picture of the kinds of reactions evoked in particular by Jean de Meun's late thirteenth-century continuation of the Roman begun by Guillaume de Lorris.

Contents:

Italian humanism and French clericalism in the fourteenth century

The defense of courtly discourse and morals

The Debate Epistles (1401-1402)

The Architectonics of Voices (1401-1404)

The debate after the debate and French humanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-439) and index.

ISBN:

0415967651

9780415967655

OCLC:

71288754