1st Edition
Debating the Roman de la Rose A Critical Anthology
Edited By Christine McWebb
Copyright 2007
484 Pages
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Routledge
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Around the year 1400, the poet Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate in France over the literary "truth" and merit of the Roman of the Rose, perhaps the most renowned work of the French Middle Ages. She argued against what she considered to be misrepresentations of female virtue and vice in the Rose. Her bold objections aroused the support and opposition of some of the period’s most famous... Read more
Chapter 1 Italian Humanism and French Clericalism in the Fourteenth Century; Chapter 2 The Defense of Courtly Discourse and Morals; Chapter 3 The Debate Epistles (1401–1402); Chapter 4 The Architectonics of Voices (1401–1404); Chapter 5 The Debate after the Debate and French Humanism;
Biography
Christine McWebb, Earl Jeffrey Richards
