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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 / Sylvia Huot.
Author
Huot, Sylvia.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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xvi, 404 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
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.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 16
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 16.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
  • Parodies, imitations, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-395) and indexes.
Contents
1. Perspectives on the Roman de la Rose: the text and its manuscript transmission. An erotic dream, a learned compendium: the polymorphous Rose. Manuscript presentation of the Rose. Reading and rewriting the Rose: the malleable text. The personalized Rose of MS Bibl. Nat. fr. 25525 -- 2. Intertextual readings of the Rose: marginal glosses and readers' annotations. The Rose and the Auctores: the MSS Bibl. Nat. fr. 1560 and Arsenal 3337. The Flores auctorum and the Roman de la Rose. Text and gloss in MS Bibl. Nat. fr. 24390. The MS Dijon, Bibl. Mun. 525: an anthology built on the Rose -- 3. The profitable, pleasurable Rose: the remaniement of Gui de Mori. Gui de Mori as an author of the Rose. Rewriting the Art of Love. The Rose and the auctores: Jean de Meun and Gui de Mori. Sacred and erotic love in MS Tou. Gui de Mori in the Rose manuscript tradition -- 4. Adapting Jean de Meun to Guillaume de Lorris: the Rose of the B manuscripts. The B remaniement: an overview. "La maniere du chastel prendre": the Rose of MS Bi. Rethinking the conflict of love and reason. Truth, deception, and euphemism: language and meaning in the B text. The B remaniement and the Rose manuscript tradition -- 5. Transforming the mirror of lovers: manuscripts of the second group. The totalizing mirror of love: the Rose of the KMN manuscripts. The expurgated mirror of love: a survey of partial modifications. A mirror of princes: the Rose of Cambridge Univ. Libr. Add. MS 2993 -- 6. "Expose sur le Roman de la Rose": rewriting the Rose in the Pelerinage de vie humaine. Adapting the Rose: from erotic quest to spiritual pilgrimage. Transformations of Genius: Moses, Aristotle, and Guillaume de Deguilleville. Rethinking the pilgrimage: Deguilleville's second recension. Recuperating the Rose: the MS Arras, Bibl. Mun. 845 -- 7. Poet of love and nature: Guillaume de Machaut and the Rose. Echoes of the Rose in the Fonteinne amoureuse. The reconciliation of love and reason in the Remede de Fortune. Reliving the Rose: allegory and irony in the Voir Dit. Writer of love and nature: Machaut and Genius -- 8. Sacred and erotic love: the visual gloss of MS Bibl. Nat. fr. 25526. The notion of a visual gloss: analogs for MS Mi. The marginalia of MS Mi: an overview. The iconography of erotic passion in MS Mi. The iconography of divine passion in MS Mi. The literary context of MS Mi. The codicological Rose: the concentric structure of MS Mi -- 9. Conclusion: the protean Rose -- Appendix A The Remaniement of Gui de Mon. 1. Excerpt from the God of Love's explanation of true love. 2. Reason's description of love. 3. Exemplary tales of justice and injustice. 4. The discourse of Genius -- Appendix B The B remaniement. 1. The discourse of Reason in MS Bi. 2. Passages from Reason in MS Be -- Appendix C The "litany of love" in the discourse of Reason -- Appendix D Discourse of Genius in MS Lm (partial) -- Appendix E The Rose of Cambridge, University Library Add. MS 2993. 1. Interpolation of the mirror of Virgil in MS [kappa][upsilon]. 2. Interpolation on ancient heroes in MS [kappa][upsilon].
Call Number
JFE 93-7905
ISBN
  • 0521417139
  • 9780521417136
LCCN
91045887
OCLC
25049709
Author
Huot, Sylvia.
Title
The Romance of the rose and its medieval readers : interpretation, reception, manuscript transmission / Sylvia Huot.
Imprint
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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Series
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 16
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 16.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-395) and indexes.
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