%0 Journal Article
%A Albrecht Classen
%D 2025
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%J Mediaevistik
%@ 2199-806X
%N 1
%V 37
%T Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the Rose, ed. Daisy Delogu and Anne-Hélène Miller. Approaches to Teaching World Literature, 170. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2023, vii, 299 pp.
%R 10.3726/med.2024.01.63
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1672648
%X The thirteenth-century allegorical poem Le Roman de la rose, originally by Guillaume de Lorris (ca. 1230), and vastly expanded by Jean de Meun (ca. 1270/1280), was one of the most popular texts in the European Middle Ages, exerting a vast influence particularly in France, England, and also in Italy, whereas there are no major traces of its impact on late medieval German poets or translators, not to mention Scandinavia or the Iberian Peninsula, though this would have to be investigated further. Most famously, the Querelle des femme about this poem, involving Jean de Montreuil, Pier Col, and Pierre d’Ailly on the pro side, Jean Gerson and Christian de Pizan on the con side, created an enormous uproar among contemporary intellectuals early in the fifteenth century. There is, in short, so much to say about the Roman de la rose, which makes it highly attractive to examine and yet also very difficult to teach, especially because our students today are so much more sensitive and easily insulted when confronted with misogynist, sexist, or violent positions in medieval literature. The contributors to the present volume intend to provide information, guidance, methods, and practical suggestions about how to go about in this case.
%K approaches, teaching, romance, rose, daisy, delogu, anne-hélène, miller, world, literature, york, modern, language, association, america