'Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought

The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French, English and Italian literature for the next two centuries, serving in particular as a model for Chaucer and Dante. Jean de Meun''s section of this extensive, complex and dazzling work is notable for i...