The "Roman de la Rose" and Thirteenth-Century Thought PDF
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THE ROMAN DE LA ROSE AND THIRTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT Thethirteenth-centuryallegoricaldreamvisiontheRomandelaRose 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 particularasamodelforChaucerandDante.JeandeMeun’ssection of this extensive, complex, and dazzling work is notable for its sophisticatedresponsestoawholehostofcontemporaryphilosophi- cal debates. This collection brings together literary scholars and historians of philosophy to produce the most thorough, interdisci- plinary study to date of how the Rose uses poetry to articulate philosophical problems and positions. This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the importance of the poem for medieval intellectual historyandoffersnewinsightsintothephilosophicalpotentialboth oftheRosespecificallyandofmedievalpoetryasawhole. jonathan morton is an assistant professor in the French and Italian Department at Tulane University and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He is the author of The ‘Roman de la rose’ in its Philosophical Context: Art, Nature, and Ethics and is working on a monographonthemedievaltechnologicalimaginary. marco nievergelt is the author of Allegorical Quests from DeguilevilletoSpenserandisworkingonaprojectentitledMedieval AllegoryasEpistemology:Dream-VisionPoetryonLanguage,Cognition, andExperience. cambridge studies in medieval literature FoundingEditor AlastairMinnis,YaleUniversity GeneralEditor DanielWakelin,UniversityofOxford EditorialBoard AnthonyBale,Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon ZygmuntG.Barański,UniversityofCambridge ChristopherC.Baswell,BarnardCollegeandColumbiaUniversity MaryCarruthers,NewYorkUniversity RitaCopeland,UniversityofPennsylvania RobertaFrank,YaleUniversity AlastairMinnis,YaleUniversity JocelynWogan-Browne,FordhamUniversity Thisseriesofcriticalbooksseekstocoverthewholeareaofliteraturewritteninthe majormedievallanguages–themainEuropeanvernaculars,andmedievalLatin and Greek – during the period c.1100–1500. Its chief aim is to publish and stimulatefreshscholarshipandcriticismonmedievalliterature,specialemphasis being placed on understanding major works of poetry, prose, and drama in relationtothecontemporarycultureandlearningwhichfosteredthem. Recenttitlesintheseries IrinaDumitrescuTheExperienceofEducationinAnglo-SaxonLiterature JonasWellendorfGodsandHumansinMedievalScandinavia:RetyingtheBonds ThomasA.PrendergastandJessicaRosenfeld(eds.)ChaucerandtheSubversionof Form KatieL.WalterMiddleEnglishMouths LawrenceWarnerChaucer'sScribes GlennD.BurgerandHollyA.Crocker(eds.)MedievalAffect,Feeling,and Emotion RobertJ.Meyer-LeeLiteraryValueandSocialIdentityintheCanterburyTales AndrewKraebelBiblicalCommentaryandTranslationinLaterMedievalEngland GeorgeCorbettDante’sChristianEthics:PurgatoryanditsMoralContexts JonathanMortonandMarcoNievergelt,withJohnMarenbonTheRomandela RoseandThirteenth-CenturyThought Acompletelistoftitlesintheseriescanbefoundattheendofthevolume. THE ROMAN DE LA ROSE AND THIRTEENTH- CENTURY THOUGHT edited by JONATHAN MORTON TulaneUniversity MARCO NIEVERGELT with JOHN MARENBON TrinityCollege,Cambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108425704 doi:10.1017/9781108348799 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:RomandelaRoseetlaphilosophieparisienneauXIIIesiècle(2016:Institutd’études avancéesdeParis)|Morton,Jonathan,1982–editor,translator.|Nievergelt,Marco,editor, translator. title:The‘Romandelarose’andthirteenth-centurythought/editedbyJonathanMorton, MarcoNievergelt. description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress, 2019.|Series:CambridgestudiesinMedievalliterature|Somechaptersweretranslatedinto Englishbytheeditors.|Includesbibliographicalreferences. identifiers:lccn2019042091(print)|lccn2019042092(ebook)|isbn9781108425704 (hardback)|isbn9781108348799(epub) subjects:lcsh:Guillaume,deLorris,active1230.Romandelarose–Congresses.|Jean,de Meun,approximately1240-approximately1305.Romandelarose–Congresses.|Philosophy, Medieval,inliterature–Congresses. classification:lccpq1529.r662019(print)|lccpq1529(ebook)|ddc841/.1–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019042091 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019042092 isbn978-1-108-42570-4Hardback isbn978-1-108-44319-7Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents ListofContributors pagevii Acknowledgements viii NoteonPrimaryTexts ix Introduction 1 JonathanMortonandMarcoNievergelt part i epistemology and language 25 1 MechanismsofBelief:JeandeMeun’sImplicitEpistemology 27 ChristopheGrellard(translatedbyJonathanMortonandMarco Nievergelt) 2 VisualExperiencesandAllegoricalFiction:TheLexis andParadigmofFantasieinJeandeMeun’sRose 45 FabiennePomel(translatedbyJonathanMortonandMarcoNievergelt) 3 Imposition,Equivocation,andIntention:Language andSignificationinJeandeMeun’sRomandelaRose andThirteenth-CenturyGrammarandLogic 65 MarcoNievergelt 4 SophismsandSophistryintheRomandelaRose 90 JonathanMorton part ii natural law, politics, and society 109 5 ThePersonalandthePolitical:LoveandSociety intheRomandelaRose 111 JuhanaToivanen v vi Contents 6 HumanNatureandNaturalLawinJeandeMeun’s RomandelaRose 131 PhilipKnox 7 APolitico-CommunalReadingoftheRose:TheFiore AttributedtoDanteAlighieri 149 AntonioMontefusco(translatedbyJonathanMortonandMarco Nievergelt) part iii unfinished business: forms of writing, forms of knowledge 171 8 JeandeMeun,Boethius,andThirteenth-CenturyPhilosophy 173 JohnMarenbon 9 TheRomanceoftheNon-Rose:EchoesandSubversions ofNegativeTheologyinJeandeMeun’sRomandelaRose 194 AliceLamy(translatedbyJonathanMortonandMarcoNievergelt) 10 MetalepsisandAllegory:TheUnityoftheRomandelaRose 210 LucianoRossi(translatedbyJonathanMortonandMarcoNievergelt) Notes 233 Bibliography 282 Index 315 Contributors christophe grellard isDirectorofStudies(Professor)intheHistory of Medieval Philosophy at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL University,Paris. philip knox is a university lecturer at the Faculty of English of the UniversityofCambridge. alice lamy teachesclassicsattheHélèneBoucherLycée,Paris,andisan associatememberoflaboratoryEA4081(‘RomeetsesRenaissances’)at Paris Lettres Sorbonne and laboratory EA4284 (‘TrAme’) at the Jules VerneUniversityofPicardie. john marenbon is Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the UniversityofCambridge. antonio montefusco isAssistantProfessorofMedievalLiteraturein theHumanitiesDepartmentatCa’FoscariUniversity,Venice. jonathan morton is an assistant professor in the French and Italian Department at Tulane University and an Alexander von Humboldt FellowattheMaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience,Berlin. marco nievergelt works on the literature of medieval and early modernBritaininitsEuropeancontext. fabienne pomel is a lecturer (Maître de conférences HDR) in the LiteratureDepartmentoftheUniversityofRennes2. luciano rossi hasbeenaprofessoremeritusattheUniversityofZurich since2010. juhana toivanen isanAcademyResearchFellowattheDepartmentof SocialSciencesandPhilosophyoftheUniversityofJyväskylä(Finland) andapart-timeresearcherattheDepartmentofPhilosophy,Linguistics andTheoryofScienceoftheUniversityofGothenburg(Sweden). vii Acknowledgements Thisbookgrewoutofaninternationalconference,‘TheRomandelaRose andThirteenth-CenturyParisianPhilosophy’,whichwasheldattheParis InstituteforAdvancedStudieson20and21June2016.Itwasorganizedby theeditorsofthisvolumeandwaskindlysponsoredbytheInstitute.The conference provided the opportunity for extended discussion and exchange, and we would like to thank all participants and attendees, whose contributions ultimately helped to determine the final shape of this volume. In addition to the contributors to this volume, we would particularlyliketothankKevinBrownlee,ChristopherLucken,Jean-Marc Mandosio, Alex Novikoff, Earl Jeffrey Richards, Aurélien Robert, Kellie Robertson, Irène Rosier, Ian Wei, and Olga Weijers. Further thanks are due to Gretty Mirdal, at that time Director of the Institute, and the ScientificOfficer,SimonLuck,togetherwiththeInstitutestaffformaking theeventsoenjoyableandrewarding. WearegratefultocolleaguesatCambridgeUniversityPressforalltheir work, especially Linda Bree, Emily Hockley, Sarah Lambert, and Tim Mason,andtoDamianPenfoldatIntegra,toBretWorkmanforhissharp- eyed copyediting, and to Jane Sinnett-Smith for her valuable assistance with the index. We (Jonathan and Marco) would like to express our gratitudetoJohnMarenbonforhisgenerousadviceandinsightthrough- outtheeditingprocess.JonathanMorton’sworkonthisvolumewasmade possiblethroughthegeneroussupportoftheLeverhulmeTrust(UK)and theAlexandervonHumboldtFoundation(Germany). viii
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