Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose" : Text, Image, Reception, PDF eBook

Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose" : Text, Image, Reception PDF

Edited by Kevin Brownlee, Sylvia Huot

Part of the The Middle Ages Series series

PDF

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

The Romance of the Rose has been a controversial text since it was written in the thirteenth century.

There is evidence for radically different readings as as early as the first half of the fourteenth century.

The text provided inspiration for both courtly and didactic poets.

Some read it as a celebration of human love; others as an erudite philosophical work; still others as a satirical representation of social and sexual follies.

On one hand it was praised as an edifying treatise, on the other condemned as lascivious and misogynistic. Kevin Brownlee and Sylvia Huot and the contributors to this volume—Pierre-Yves Badel, Emmanuele Baumgartner, John V.

Fleming, Robert Pogue Harrison, David F. Hult, Stephen G. Nichols, Lee Patterson, Daniel Poirion, Karl D. Uitti, Dieuwke E. van der Poel, and Lori Walters—represent all the major areas of current work on the Romance of the Rose, both in American and in Europe.

The volume will be of value to students and scholars of medieval literature, intellectual history, and art history.

Information

Information

Also in the The Middle Ages Series series  |  View all