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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).
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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.
The Romance of the Rose describes a young lover’s dream in which allegorical figures like Fair Welcome and Reason help or hinder him in his quest to find the object of his desire—a rose, a symbol for femininity and female sexuality.
The Roman de la Rose is the work of two authors. Begun by Guillaume de Lorris around 1230 and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later, the Rose is probably the most influential work written in the Old French vernacular.
View a digital version of Roman de la Rose (NLW MS 5016D), which is amongst the most beautiful of European literary manuscripts from the middle ages. It contains one of the most popular romantic French poems of its time.
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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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.
