The Romance of the Rose, or Guillaume de Dole

The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l'Ombre, Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the realistic romance in Old French literature.

Author: Jean Renart
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 06/01/1993
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780812213881

About the Author
Patricia Terry has taught literature at the University of California, San Diego, and at Barnard College. She is the translator of Poems of the Elder Edda, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Nancy Vine Durling teaches French and comparative literature at Florida Atlantic University.