The Romance of the rose and its medieval readers : interpretation, reception, manuscript transmission

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The Romance of the rose and its medieval readers : interpretation, reception, manuscript transmission

Title remainder

interpretation, reception, manuscript transmission

Statement of responsibility

Sylvia Huot

Creator

• Huot, Sylvia

Subject

• Books and reading -- France -- History
• Courtly love in literature
• Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230
• Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230 -- Parodies, imitations, etc
• Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305 -- Criticism and interpretation | History
• Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Love poetry, French -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- France
• Reader-response criticism
• Romances -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Transmission of texts
• Authors and readers -- France -- History

Language

eng

Summary

The Romance of the Rose was one of the most important works of medieval vernacular literature. It was composed in the thirteenth century and exerted a profound influence on literature in France, England, the Netherlands and Italy for the next 200 years. In this book, Sylvia Huot investigates how medieval readers understood the text, assessing the evidence to be found in well over 200 surviving manuscripts: annotations, glosses, illuminations, marginal doodles, rewritings, expansions and abridgements. This allows a picture to emerge of the interests and concerns of its readers, including such important fourteenth-century figures as the monastic author Guillaume de Deguilleville and the court poet Guillaume de Machaut. The book contains analyses of individual versions of the poem. It offers an interesting perspective on the interpretative difficulties of this learned and complex poem

Member of

• Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 16

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Series volume

16