The Romance of the Rose Archive
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Looking Back: Medieval French Romance and the Dynamics of Seeing
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation builds upon the work of feminist medievalists and other literary and cultural scholars to argue that sight, and objects that are seen, articulate love relationships between characters in medieval romances, and that seeing is frequently a locus of resistance to gender norms the texts both establish and refuse to accept. -
Chaucer’s costume rhetoric in his portrait of the Prioress
Posted on October 10, 2012 | No CommentsNo critic has ever discussed costume signs in order to reveal to what extent the Prioress does or does not conform in her costume to the fourteenth century norm, with consideration given, simultaneously, to the historical records, literature and visual arts of the period that form and inform the signs from the many traditions Chaucer in corporates in his portrait of the Prioress. -
Constructions of Gender in Medieval Welsh Literature
Posted on June 17, 2012 | No CommentsThe discussion of gender in medieval literary criticism is generally considered to be a relatively new field, having achieved real momentum only in the latter half of the twentieth century. However, since it was the early fifteenth century when Christine de Pisan wrote a response to Jean de Meun’s Romance of the Rose, it cannot really be imagined that the medieval audience was too primitive to be fully aware of the subtext inside their stories. -
Love, Mercy, and Courtly Discourse: Marguerite de Navarre Reads Alain Chartier
Posted on June 17, 2012 | No CommentsLove, Mercy, and Courtly Discourse: Marguerite de Navarre Reads Alain Chartier Frelick, Nancy (University of British Columbia) Mythes à la cour, mythes pour la four (2010). 325-36 Abstract In the Heptaméron, Marguerite de... -
Christine de Pizan and Jean Gerson on the Body Politic: The Limits of Intellectual Influence?
Posted on February 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe present paper represents a small attempt to test competing hypotheses about the substance of the intellectual friendship between Christine and Jean by examining one overlapping theme in their respective body of writings: the organic metaphor between the human body and the political community. -
Healing Leaves
Posted on December 27, 2011 | No CommentsMedieval French literature provides the modern researcher with references to the healing arts in many passages that are incorporated into prose or poetic works. -
‘It’s a Magical World’: The Page in Comics and Medieval Manuscripts
Posted on November 14, 2011 | No CommentsIn this essay I examine the location in the material world that calls forth that cognitive frontier: the page.
