The Romance of the Rose and Its Medieval Readers: Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission
- Author / Editor
- Huot, Sylvia.
The Romance of the Rose and Its Medieval Readers: Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 404 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 16.
- Description
- Examines manuscripts of "Roman de la Rose" to discover how medieval readers interpreted it. Explores glosses and other internal commentary as well as illustrations and various versions of the work. Issues explored in depth include the erotic and the spiritual, euphemisms and expurgations, and the rewritings of Love, Reason, and Genius. Also considers appropriations of the Rose in works by Guillaume de Machaut and Guillaume de Deguilleville.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.