The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose and Other Documents in the Debate
Author : Charles Frederick Ward
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Guillaume
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Author : Charles Frederick Ward
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Guillaume
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Author : David F. Hult
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226670139
In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365a 1430?) wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular 'Romance of the Rose' for its unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. Here, Hult collects debate documents, letters and excerpts from other works of Pizan, including one from 'City of Ladiesa' her major defense of women.
Author : Christine McWebb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1135885869
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 intellectuals, notable Jean Gerson, whose sermons on the subject are important literary documents. "The Quarrel of the Rose" is the name given by modern scholars to the collection of these and other documents, including both poetry and letters, that offer a vivid account of this important controversy. As the first dual-language version of the "Quarrel" documents, this volume will be of great interest to medievalists and an ideal addition to the Routledge Medieval Texts series. Along with translations of the actual debate epistles, the volume includes several relevant passages from the Romance of the Rose, as well as a chronology of events and ample biography of source materials.
Author : Charles Frederick Ward
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Women
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Author : Guillaume de Lorris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691257779
Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus. Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their understanding of this rich tale about the Lover and his quest--against the admonishments of Reason and the obstacles set by Jealousy and Resistance--to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted Garden. The original introduction by Dahlberg remains an excellent overview of the work, covering such topics as the iconographic significance of the imagery and the use of irony in developing the central theme of love. His new preface reviews selected scholarship through 1990, which examines, for example, the sources and influences of the work, the two authors, the nature of the allegorical narrative as a genre, the use of first person, and the poem's early reception. The new bibliographic material incorporates that of the earlier editions. The sixty-four miniature illustrations from thirteenth-and fifteenth-century manuscripts are retained, as are the notes keyed to the Langlois edition, on which the translation is based.
Author : Charles Frederick Ward
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Women
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Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Page : 674 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Libraries
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Author : Royal Society of Canada
Publisher :
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 1911
Category :
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Author : Mark Meredith
Publisher :
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
Author : Jenny Adams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812201043
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play, Jenny Adams looks to medieval literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities. Power Play is the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes were. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. As allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important symbolic power. For these writers and others, the game provided a means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by contractual and economic ties. The pieces on the chessboard were more than subjects; they were individuals, playing by the rules.