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New Medieval Literatures 16 (Hardcover)
Laura Ashe, David Lawton, Wendy Scase; Contributions by Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans, …
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An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval
textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern
methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of
English Studies New Medieval Literatures - now published by Boydell
and Brewer - is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures,
aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the
Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the
theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies
associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces both the
British Isles and Europe. Topics in this volume include the
political ecology of Havelok the Dane: Thomas Hoccleve and the
making of "Chaucer"; and Britain and the Welsh Marches in Fouke le
Fitz Waryn. Contributors: Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans,
Marcel Elias, PhilipKnox, Sebastian Langdell, Jonathan Morton,
Marco Nievergelt, George Younge.
The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la
Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with
philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated
French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries,
serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante. Jean de
Meun's section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is
notable for its sophisticated responses to a whole host of
contemporary philosophical debates. This collection brings together
literary scholars and historians of philosophy to produce the most
thorough, interdisciplinary study to date of how the Rose uses
poetry to articulate philosophical problems and positions. This
wide-ranging collection demonstrates the importance of the poem for
medieval intellectual history and offers new insights into the
philosophical potential both of the Rose specifically and of
medieval poetry as a whole.
The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la
Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with
philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated
French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries,
serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante. Jean de
Meun's section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is
notable for its sophisticated responses to a whole host of
contemporary philosophical debates. This collection brings together
literary scholars and historians of philosophy to produce the most
thorough, interdisciplinary study to date of how the Rose uses
poetry to articulate philosophical problems and positions. This
wide-ranging collection demonstrates the importance of the poem for
medieval intellectual history and offers new insights into the
philosophical potential both of the Rose specifically and of
medieval poetry as a whole.
The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context offers a new
interpretation of the long and complex medieval allegorical poem
written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in the thirteenth
century, a work that became one of the most influential works of
vernacular literature in the European Middle Ages. The scope and
sophistication of the poem's content, especially in Jean's
continuation, has long been acknowledged, but this is the first
book-length study to offer an in-depth analysis of how the Rose
draws on, and engages with, medieval philosophy, in particular with
the Aristotelianism that dominated universities in the thirteenth
century. It considers the limitations and possibilities of
approaching ideas through the medium of poetic fiction, whose lies
paradoxically promise truth and whose ambiguities and
self-contradiction make it hard to discern its positions. This
indeterminacy allows poetry to investigate the world and the self
in ways not available to texts produced in the Scholastic context
of universities, especially those of the University of Paris, whose
philosophical controversies in the 1270s form the backdrop against
which the poem is analysed. At the heart of the Rose are the three
ideas of art, nature, and ethics, which cluster around its central
subject: love. While the book offers larger claims about the Rose's
philosophical agenda, different chapters consider the specifics of
how it draws on, and responds to, Roman poetry, twelfth-century
Neoplatonism, and thirteenth-century Aristotelianism in broaching
questions about desire, epistemology, human nature, the
imagination, primitivism, the philosophy of art, and the ethics of
money.
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