The Romance of the Rose

by Guillaume, De Lorris; Meun, Jean De; Dahlberg, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780691044569
• ISBN10: 0691044562
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-03
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris's work, it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every aspect of medieval life from predestination and optics, to the Franciscan controversy and the right way to deal with premature hair-loss.

Table of Contents

Table of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xiii
Preface to the 1983 Edition	xv
Preface to the 1995 Edition	xvii
Bibliographical Supplement	xxvii
Introduction	1	(1)
The Two Authors	1	(1)
The Unity of the Two Parts	2	(3)
The Technique of Irony	5	(5)
Style and Theme	10	(2)
The Theme of Love	12	(10)
The Illustrations	22	(4)
The Present Translation	26	(3)
The Romance of the Rose
Part I (1-4058): The Dream of Love	29	(60)
Guillaume de Lorris
The Garden, the Fountain, and the Rose (1-1680)	31	(23)
The God of Love and the Affair of the Heart (1681-2970)	54	(19)
The Involvement of Reason and the Castle of Jealousy (2971-4058)	73	(16)
Part II (4059-21780): The Overthrow of Reason	89	(266)
Jean de Meun
Discourse of Reason (4059-7230)	91	(47)
The Advice of Friend (7231-10002)	138	(41)
The Assault on the Castle. False Seeming's Contribution (10003-12380)	179	(37)
The Old Woman's Intercession (12381-14807)	216	(37)
Attack and Repulse (14808-15890)	253	(17)
Nature's Confession (15891-19438)	270	(51)
Genius's Solution (19439-20703)	321	(18)
Venus's Conflagration and the Winning of the Rose (20704-21780)	339	(16)
Notes	355	(72)
Appendix: Table of Concordances Between Line-Numbering in Langlois and Lecoy Editions	427	(2)
Bibliography	429	(10)
Index	439	(12)
Illustrations	451