The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought (Hardcover)

Part I. Epistemology and Language: 1. The mechanisms of belief: Jean de Meun's implicit epistemology Christophe Grellard (translated by Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt); 2. Visual experiences and allegorical fiction: the lexis and paradigm of fantasie in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose Fabienne Pomel (translated by Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt); 3. Imposition, equivocation, and intention: language and signification in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose and thirteenth-century grammar and logic Marco Nievergelt; 4. Sophisms and sophistry in the Roman de la Rose Jonathan Morton; Part II. Natural Law, Politics, and Society: 5. The personal and the political: love and society in the Roman de la Rose Juhana Toivanen; 6. Human nature and the natural law in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose Philip Knox; 7. A politico-communal re-reading of the Rose: the Fiore Attributed to Dante Alighieri Antonio Montefusco (translated by Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt); Part III. Unfinished Business: Forms of Writing, Forms of Knowledge: 8. Jean de Meun, Boethius, and thirteenth-century philosophy John Marenbon; 9. The romance of the non-rose: echoes and subversions of negative theology in?Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose Alice Lamy (translated by Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt); 10. Metalepsis and allegory: the unity of the Roman de la Rose Luciano Rossi (translated by Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt).