Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France
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Alain Chartier
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Feminism
fifteenth century literature
French Literature
French Medieval Literature
French middle ages
Garden of Pleasure
Gender
Gontier Col
Guillaume de Lorris
Jean de Meun
Jean de Montreuil
Jean Gerson
Jean the Fearless
La Belle Dame sans Mercy
Le Roman de la Rose
literary debates
Louis d'Orleans
love rhetoric
Medieval Literature
misogyny
Philippe of Burgundy
Pierre Col
Pierre d'Ailly
proto-feminine
Querelle des femmes
thirteenth century poets
Treat of Troyes
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- ISBN 9780813069944
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2024
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
Joan E. McRae, professor of French and humanities at Middle Tennessee State University, is the author of Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy.
