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    Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision. As poetry, The Romance...
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    Romaunt of the Rose (The Romaunt) is a partial translation into Middle English of the French allegorical poem, Le Roman de la Rose (Le Roman). Originally...
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    Jean de Meun (or de Meung, French: [ʒɑ̃ də mœ̃]) (c. 1240 – c. 1305) was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose. He was...
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  • The Roman de la Rose Digital Library (Rose DL) is a joint project of the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale...
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    (13th century) romance by a certain Thibaut. It is influenced by the Roman de la Rose in describing the onset of love in terms of allegory and in its frequent...
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    Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200 – c. 1240) was a French scholar and poet from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the Roman de la Rose. Little...
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    expression is still popular. In the thirteenth-century work Le Roman de la Rose (called "The French Iliad" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable)...
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    Joséphine Bonaparte (French: [ʒozefin bɔnapaʁt], born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Emperor...
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    French prose. The book serves as her formal response to Jean de Meun's popular Roman de la Rose. Pizan combats Meun's statements about women by creating an...
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  • century, the story of their love affair was summarised by Jean de Meun in the Le Roman de la Rose. Chaucer makes a brief reference in the Wife of Bath's Prologue...
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  • roses were symbol of courtly love. Fifteenth-century Illustration from the Roman de la Rose, a 13th-century French poem about a search for a red rose...
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    favor". The work is reminiscent of a similar tract in the 13th-century Roman de la Rose, though owes more to the animal fabliaux of Reynard the Fox. Chaillou's...
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  • Guillaume de Dole (also known as (Le) Roman(s) de la Rose, or Guillaume de Dole) is an Old French narrative romance by Jean Renart. Composed in the early...
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    controversy, the "Querelle du Roman de la Rose". Christine questioned the literary merits of Jean de Meun's popular Romance of the Rose, which satirizes the conventions...
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    Beguines and nuns. In chapter 53 of Jean de Meun's 13th classic of Old French literature, Roman de la Rose, the Beguines are described by the allegorical...
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    Venus la déesse d'amors" (Venus — the goddess of love) and finally-the encyclopedia of courtly love-the famous "Roman de la Rose" of Guillaume de Lorris...
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  • depiction of love in a selection of poetic works, beginning with the Roman de la Rose. The focus, however, is on English works: the poems of Chaucer, Gower's...
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    Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (2016): 51–66. doi:10.16995/TRAC2016_51_66. Champeaux, J. (1987). Fortuna. Recherches sur le culte de la Fortuna à...
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    works and techniques. There were four great works from this period: Le Roman de la Rose. A major allegorical work, it had many lasting influences on western...
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    tight compositions and sharply defined colouring, is typified by his Roman de la Rose, the Nouailher Missal and the Book of Hours, probably painted for Charles...
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    Tales A Treatise on the Astrolabe Translation of Roman de la Rose, possibly extant as The Romaunt of the Rose Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy...
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    (Decameron: 7th day, 9th tale), Deschamps' Le Miroir de Mariage, Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (translated into English by Chaucer), Andreas...
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    carbuncles (line 500), an image Milton may have borrowed from the Roman de la Rose. A carbuncle is one of the last items listed in Sir Thomas Browne's...
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    Perceforest Gui de Warewic (1232–1242) Roman de la Rose ("Romance of the Rose") – Guillaume de Lorris (around 1225–1237) and Jean de Meun (1266–1277)...
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  • literature Roman de la Rose Chanson d'aventure Debate poetry chanson de geste paladin Charlemagne Charles Martel Saracen Chanson de Roland Garin de Monglane...
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    and the walls covered with mythical lovers. Carved figures from the Roman de la Rose decorate the chimneypiece, which Crook considered "one of the most...
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    and give them different names, as when he adapts part of the French Roman de la Rose (13th century). The English mystery plays and the later morality plays...
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    Rose of Lima, TOSD (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 – 24 August 1617) (Latin: Rosa Limana, Spanish: Rosa de Lima) was a member of the Third...
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    de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose) The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 B 29 (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la...
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    Their business was famous, and among their most famous works was the Roman de la Rose. She was registered as a professional artisan and gave her oath to...
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