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Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not
readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making
this an essential addition to any library with a medieval
literature or French literature collection.
Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not
readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making
this an essential addition to any library with a medieval
literature or French literature collection.
This volume immerses readers in a debate tradition that flourished
in France during the late Middle Ages, focusing on two works that
were both popular and controversial in their time: Le Roman de la
Rose by thirteenth-century poets Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de
Meun and La Belle Dame sans Mercy by fifteenth-century royal
secretary and poet Alain Chartier. This is the first comparative
volume on these important works and the discussions they sparked.
Engaging with questions of women’s agency, love, marriage, and
honor, these two poems prompted responses that circulated via
treatises, letters, and sermons among officials, clerics, and
poets. Joan McRae provides commentary on the two texts, a timeline
and summary of the resulting debates, and biographical sketches of
the leading intellectuals who matched wits over different ways of
reading the texts, including pioneering writer Christine de Pizan.
McRae shows that these works and the debates, read together,
consider a range of social issues that raise questions of gender,
the place of power and hierarchy in societal relationships, and the
responsibility of writers for the effect of their works on readers.
An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France is a
helpful overview of these weighty arguments for both students and
scholars. McRae provides a compact, comprehensive, and up-to-date
study, spotlighting influential literary expressions that evolved
into the “querelle des femmes,” the “woman question,” which
in turn paved the way for modern feminism.
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