McWebb Debating the Roman de la Rose

A Critical Anthology
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-88586-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 488 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Medieval Texts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McWebb, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

User Guide

Introduction

Earl Jeffrey Richards

One: Italian Humanism and French Clericalism in the Fourteenth

Century

- The Beginning of the Debate about the Roman de la rose

1. Petrarch

- The Roman as auctoritas

- Gilles li Muisis

- Pierre Ceffons

- Raoul de Presles

- The Debate about the Mendicants

- Philippe de Mézières

- Jean le Fèvre

- Antifeminism and the Jealous Husband

- Pierre Ceffons

- Matheolus and Jean le Fèvre

- Philippe de Mézières

- Le Mesnagier de Paris

- The Early Opponents

- Guillaume de Digulleville

- Commentary on the Song of Songs

Two: The Defense of Courtly Discourse and Morals

A) The Poets’ Reaction

- Eustache Deschamps

- Philippe de Mézières

- Christine de Pizan: The Debate Before the Debate

- L’epistre au dieu d’amours

- Les enseignemens moraux que Cristine donne a son filz

- Le livre du débat de deux amans

Three: The Debate Epistles (1401-1402)

- Christine de Pizan to Isabeau de Bavière

- Christine de Pizan: Explanatory letter

- Gontier Col to Christine de Pizan

- Christine de Pizan to Jean de Montreuil

- Gontier Col to Christine de Pizan

- Christine de Pizan to Gontier Col

- Christine de Pizan to Pierre Col

Four: The Architectonics of Voices (1401-1404)

- Jean de Montreuil - Epistles 103, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122

- Christine de Pizan - A Guillaume de Tygnonville

- Christine de Pizan - Le dit de la rose

- Pierre d’Ailly - Le jardin amoureux

- Jean Gerson - Le traictié d’une vision faite contre

le Ronmant de la rose

- Pierre Col - La response maistre Pierre Col

- Jean de Montreuil - Epistle 154

- Pierre Col - A fame de hault entendement,

demoiselle Cristine de Pizan

- Jean Gerson - Talia de me

- Jean Gerson - Poenitemini

- Jean de Montreuil - Epistle 152

Five: The Debate After the Debate and French Humanism

- Christine de Pizan – 1403-1413

- Le livre de la mutacion de Fortune

- Le livre de la cité des dames

- Le livre de l’advision Cristine

- Autres Ballades: Rondel and Ballade XXXVII

- Le livre de fais d’armes et de chevalerie

- The Beginnings of French Humanism

- Laurent de Premierfait

Appendix A: Variants

Bibliography

Index