The Romance of the Rose and its Medieval Readers

Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission

By:

Sylvia Huot

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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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.

Release date Australia

August 16th, 2007

Author

Sylvia Huot

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

21 Halftones, unspecified; 7 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

424

Series

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Dimensions

153x225x24

ISBN-13

9780521039314

Product ID

1970140

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