Roman de la Rose

Someone should do a big scholarly concordance of the manuscript illuminations of the Travels of Marco Polo, the Bible, Consolation of Philosophy, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer, and put it up on the internet for free so us scholarly types can research things.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Someone should do a big scholarly concordance of the manuscript illuminations of the Travels of Marco Polo, the Bible, Consolation of Philosophy, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer, and put it up on the internet for free so us scholarly types can research things.

i miss illuminated manuscripts. 2008

Rosicrucians; the _Roman de la Rose_ is pure Hermetic esotericism.

Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

The greatest poem of mediæval France, the _Roman de la Rose_, was turned into English by his youthful pen, and the chief French poet of the day, Eustace Deschamps, held out to him the hand of fellowship in the enthusiastic _balade_, in which he apostrophised

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

The _Roman de la Rose_, beautiful as is its earlier part and ingenious as is (sometimes) its later, is, as a _story_, of the thinnest kind.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

I should rank this first part of the _Roman de la Rose_ high among the books which if a man does not appreciate he cannot even distantly understand the Middle Ages; indeed there is perhaps no single one which on the serious side contains such a master-key to their inmost recesses.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

This last characteristic attaches it on the other side to the poems of the _Roman de la Rose_ order, which succeeded the _Romans d'Aventures_ as objects of literary interest and practice, not merely in France, but throughout Europe.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

_Roman de la Rose_ and _Roman de Renart_ (older parts).

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

It was the period of the rise and reign of Allegory, and France, preceptress of almost all Europe in most literary kinds, proved herself such in this with the unparalleled example of the _Roman de la Rose_.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

It owed nothing to France but the {31} allegorical cast which the _Roman de la Rose_ had made fashionable in both countries.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886