Alastair Minnis, `Magister amoris': The `Roman de la Rose' and Vernacular Hermeneutics.(Book Review)

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-02

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), xv + 352 pp. ISBN 0-19-818754-8. 50.00 [pounds sterling].

To ask `What is this book about?' is neither to be flippantly sarcastic nor to admit to dull incomprehension. While the title might suggest a treatment of the Roman de la Rose within a tradition of vernacular commentary on other texts, and while that theme is indeed treated intermittently, the major thrusts of the book divide between the Rose, and very specifically that part of it written by Jean de Meun, as an object of commentary in the later Middle Ages and an assessment of the...

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