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Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose"
Text, Image, Reception
Kevin Brownlee (Edited by), Sylvia Huot (Edited by)
9780812213959
Paperback / softback, published 1 September 1992
400 pages, 11 illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg
"This is a major contribution to Rose scholarship and more generally to the field of medieval studies."-R. Howard Bloch
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.