The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought

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Jonathan Morton (Tulane University, Louisiana) Marco Nievergelt (University of Warwick)

The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought

Jonathan Morton (Tulane University, Louisiana), Marco Nievergelt (University of Warwick), John Marenbon

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Cambridge University Press
11 August 2022

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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. Jean de Meun's section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is notable for its sophisticated responses to a whole host of contemporary philosophical debates. This collection brings together literary scholars and historians of philosophy to produce the most thorough, interdisciplinary study to date of how the Rose uses poetry to articulate philosophical problems and positions. This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the importance of the poem for medieval intellectual history and offers new insights into the philosophical potential both of the Rose specifically and of medieval poetry as a whole.

With: John Marenbon
Edited by: Jonathan Morton (Tulane University Louisiana), Marco Nievergelt (University of Warwick)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781108443197
ISBN 10: 1108443192
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Pages: 337
Publication Date: 11 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Morton is an Assistant Professor in the French and Italian Department at Tulane University and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He is the author of The 'Roman de la rose' in its Philosophical Context: Art, Nature, and Ethics (2018) and is working on a monograph on the medieval technological imaginary. Marco Nievergelt is a Senior Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser (2012) and is working on a project entitled Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience.

Reviews for The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought

'This collection of articles will provide students and scholars with useful insights into the philosophical thoughts which informed [the Roman's] composition.' Christine McWebb, Speculum