The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose, and other documents in the debate

by Charles Frederick Ward

This, briefly, is the general course of the debate, which we shall be satisfied to have outlined, preferring to let the documents speak for themselves rather than to attempt further analysis here.

NOTES

[1] Lavisse, Histoire de France, t. iv, p. 405.

[2] Cf. E. Langlois, Origines et Sources du Roman de la Rose, Paris, 1890, p. 130 sqq.

[3] Printed several times. Cf. Le Livre de Matheolus, poème français du XIVe siècle, par Jean le Fèvre, Brussels, A. Mertens et fils, 1864. M. A. Piaget quotes from the edition of Ol. Arnoullet, Lyons (Bib. Nat. Rés. Y, 4420). For a critical edition of both Latin and French texts cf. A. G. Van Hamel, Les Lamentations de Matheolus et le Livre de Leesce de Jehan le Fèvre, Paris, 1892-1905. Cf. also Ch.-V. Langlois, La Vie en France au moyen-âge d’après quelques moralistes du temps, Paris, 1908, and Ed. Tricotel’s analysis in the Bulletin du Bibliophile 32e année, 1866, pp. 552 sqq. I have not been able to consult V.-J. Vaillant, Maistre Mahieu, satirique boulonnais du XIIIe siècle.

[4] Ed. Michel LeNoir, Paris, 1518 (Bib. Nat. Rés. Y. 4421).

[5] Cf. La Cité des Dames, as yet unpublished.

[6] Called the Roman de Fauvel et Fortune, dated 1314. Bib. nat. fr. 571. Published at St. Petersburg, 1888, by A. Bobrinsky and Th. Batiouchkof. Cf. C.-V. Langlois, op. cit., p. 277 sqq.

[7] Poésies de Gilles li Muisis, ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove, Louvain, 1882. The Registre was written probably in 1350.

[8] Cf. Oeuvres complètes d’Eustache Deschamps, pub. by the Marquis de Queux de Saint Hilaire and Gaston Raynaud, Paris, 1878-1903.