Magister Amoris: The 'Roman de la Rose' and Vernacular Hermeneutics.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

Magister Amoris: The 'Roman de la Rose' and Vernacular Hermeneutics. By ALSTAIR MINNIS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xv+352 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818754-8

With this book Alastair Minnis makes another substantial contribution to the study of medieval concepts of authorship and literary hermeneutics. This detailed examination of the reception of the Roman de la Rose in the later Middle Ages situates the Rose and the diverse reactions it provoked in the context of medieval theories of language and meaning and the study of erotic and satiric ...

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