Introduction: Rethinking the Rose

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Rethinking the Rose 1
5. Part I. Reading The Rose: Guillaume de Lorris
6. 1.The Play of Temporalities; or, The Reported Dream of Guillaume de Lorris 21
7. 2. “Cele [qui] doit estre Rose Clamee” (Rose, Vv. 40–44): Guillaume’s Intentionality 39
8. 3. From Rhyme to Reason: Remarks on the Text of the Romance of the Rose 65
9. Part II. Reading the Rose: Jean de Meun
10. 4. Jean de Meun and the Ancient Poets 81
11. 5. Language and Dismemberment: Abelard, Origen, and the Romance of the Rose 101
12. Part III. The Illuminated Rose
13. 6. Ekphrasis, Iconoclasm, and Desire 133
14. 7. Illuminating the Rose: Gui de Mori and the Illustrations of MS 101 of the Municipal Library, Tournai 167
15. Part IV. The Reception of the Rose in France
16. 8. Authors, Scribes, Remanieurs: A Note on the Textual History of the Romance of the Rose 203
17. 9. Discourses of the Self: Christine de Pizan and the Romance of the Rose 234
18. 10. Alchemical Readings of the Romance of the Rose 262
19. Part V. The Reception of the Rose Outside France
20. 11. The Bare Essential: The Landscape of II Fiore 289
21. 12. A Romance of a Rose and Florentine: The Flemish Adaptation of the Romance of the Rose 304
22. 13. Feminine Rhetoric and the Politics of Subjectivity: La Vieille and the Wife of Bath 316
23. Appendix: Author Portraits and Textual Demarcation in Manuscripts of the Romance of the Rose 359
24. Index 375
25. Contributors 385