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Apr 7, 2016 · The ‘Roman de la Rose’, the most famous allegorical love poem of all time, was composed in France in the thirteenth century, at the height of the age of chivalry and courtly love. It was a best-seller in the Middle Ages, with over 300 manuscripts surviving from the 13 th to the 16 th centuries (many more than Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales).
The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries, serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante.
- Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt, John Marenbon
- 2020
Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision. As poetry, The Romance of the Rose is a notable instance of courtly literature, purporting to provide a "mirror of love" in which the whole art of romantic love is disclosed.
Jan 28, 2011 · The thirteenth-century French verse Roman de la Rose involves striking new developments in the deployment of various allegorical constructs and procedures, within the context of a self-conscious and innovative expansion of dominant vernacular literary discourses, both lyric and narrative.
- Kevin Brownlee
- 2010
The Roman de la Rose was one of the most important and influential literary works written in medieval French. It survives in approximately 320 manuscripts and fragments made between the 13th and the 16th centuries.
May 28, 2006 · Summary. In 1402, Christine de Pizan, one of the first and most illustrious women of letters in the French tradition, was gradually establishing a reputation as a serious writer.
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Jun 6, 2023 · Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their understanding of this rich tale about the Lover and his quest--against the admonishments of Reason and the obstacles set by Jealousy and Resistance--to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted Garden.
