Magister amoris The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics [Hardcover]

TheRoman de la Rosewas a major bestseller--largely due to its robust treatment of natural sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in which Jean de Meun, in imitation of Ovid, assumed the mock-magisterium(or mastership) of love. Alastair J. Minnis considers allegoricalversusliteralistic expression in the poem, Jean's provocative use of plain and sometimes obscene language, the challenge of its homosocial and perhaps even homoerotic constructions, and the problematic translation of literary authority from Latin into the vulgar tongue.

Introduction: Maistre Jehan de Meun and the magisterium amoris
1. Academic Prologues to Ovid and the Vernacular Art of Love
2. Lifting the Veil: Sexual/Textual Nakedness in theRoman de la Rose
3.Parler proprement: Words, Deeds and Proper Speech in theRose
4.Signe d'estre malles: Genre, Gender and the End of theRose
5. Theorizing theRose: Crises of Textual Authority in theQuerelle de la Rose
6. Pruning theRose: Evrart de Conty and European Vernacular Commentary
Bibliography
Index