UID:
almahu_9948557090902882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 322 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108348799 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Medieval literature ; 111
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jun 2020).
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Part 1. Epistemology and Language. The Mechanisms of Belief: Jean de Meun's Implicit Epistemology / Christophe Grellard (translated by Jonathan Mortonand Marco Nievergelt) -- Visual Experiences and Allegorical Fiction: The Lexis and Paradigm of fantasie in Jean de Meun / Fabienne Pomel (translated by Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt) -- Impropriety, Equivocation, and Imposition: Jean de Meun and Parisian Grammar and Logic / Marco Nievergelt -- Sophisms and Sophistry in the Roman de la Rose / Jonathan Morton -- Part 2. Natural Law, Politics, and Society. Le Roman de la Rose: Themes in Political Philosophy / Juhana Toivanen -- Human Nature and the Natural Law in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose / Philip Knox -- A politico-communal rereading of the Rose: the Fiore attributed to Dante Alighieri / Montefusco (translated by Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt) -- Part 3. Unfinished Business: Forms of Writing, Forms of Knowledge. The Roman de la Rose and Boethius / John Marenbon -- The Romance of the Non-Rose: Jean de Meun's inheritance and subversion of negative theology / Alice Lamy (translated by Jonathan Mortonand Marco Nievergelt) -- Metalepsis and Allegory: the Unity of the Roman de la Rose / Luciano Rossi (translated by Jonathan Mortonand Marco Nievergelt)
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108425704
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348799
