moderation in all things
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moderation in all things proverbial saying, mid 19th century; a more recent formulation of the idea contained in
there is measure in all things. The essential thought is found in the work of the Greek poet Hesiod (
c.700 bc), ‘observe due measure; moderation is best in all things’, and of the Roman comic dramatist Plautus (
c.250–184 bc), ‘moderation in all things is the best policy.’
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun: Narcissus and Pygmalion.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Near the beginning of the poem Guillaume de Lorris recounts Ovid's story of...order to make him more like Guillaume de Lorris' Narcissus. When Amant enters...Narcissus that is operative in Guillaume de Lorris's text at this point is collapsed...
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An allegorical mirror: the pool of Narcissus in Guillaume de Lorris' Romance of the Rose.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...optical nerve and brain: Hunain's description of the eye's structure provides an important detail for our understanding of Guillaume's fountain, for it indicates that the crystals beneath the water, with their ability to receive color from the sun's...
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Pseudo-autobiography in the Fourteenth Century: Juan Ruiz Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart and Geoffrey Chaucer.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...narrator of Le Roman de la Rose, when `Guillaume de Lorris' is specifically, and wrongly, named...cited is that following the end of the `Guillaume de Lorris' section and the naming of Guillaume and Jean de Meun as authors by Amor in...
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Ardis Butterfield. Poetry and Music in Medieval France from Jean Renart to Guillaume Machaut.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Renart's Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole from the early decades...focus on the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris revised by Jean de Meun. Moreover...between Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut occur within a narrative...
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Reading the 'Rose:' literacy and the presentation of the 'Roman de la Rose' in medieval manuscripts.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...the death of the first author, Guillaume de Lorris. Jean de Meun, speaking through...quotation of the last six verses of Guillaume's poem (vv. 10525-10530...10565-10566). Jean and Guillaume are also made to take their place...
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Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of four medieval authors. In Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose, Akbari...structure is compelling evidence that Guillaume's Roman de la rose is complete...contrast, Jean de Meun subsumes Guillaume's poem to his own ends, by...
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Internal Differences and Meanings in the Roman de la Rose.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...grounds. Kelly sees Jean's Rose as a recasting of Guillaume de Lorris's dream through the refracting mirrors of Ovid and Boethius, thereby undercutting Guillaume's courtly idealism. The result can be seen as a...
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Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...so rightly deserves, in the center of the field where the scholarly debate takes place. But, in spite of what Guillaume de Lorris says about them, we know 'qu'en songes/ n'a se fables non et menonges,' and the Middle Dutch texts have...
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Rethinking the 'Romance of the Rose': Text, Image, Reception.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...treating mediaeval and modern readings of the Roman de la Rose, divided among five sections: literary approaches to Guillaume de Lorris's Roman (I) and Jean de Meung's continuation (II), the iconographic tradition of the whole poem (III and...
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La Cort d' Amor: A Critical Edition.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...correct, then this poem is the earliest surviving vernacular narrative personification allegory, easily predating Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose. Bardell's edition is the first reliable and complete one of the poem, following the less...
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Guillaume de Lorris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Guillaume de Lorris , c.1215-c.1278, French poet, author of the first part of the Roman de la Rose . He handled the chivalric conventions with subtlety and charm, and his work shows taste, psychological perception, and wide familiarity with French letters.
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Lorris, Guillaume de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Lorris, Guillaume de, see Roman de la Rose .
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Jean de Meun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...born in Meun-sur-Loire, the general region of Guillaume de Lorris, to whose Romance of the Rose he added 17,722...medieval scientist-philosopher. In contrast with Guillaume de Lorris, Jean is bourgeois, extremely learned, realistic...
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Le Roman de la Rose
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...lines in eight-syllable couplets. It is in two parts. The first (4,058 lines) was written (c.1237) by Guillaume de Lorris and was left unfinished. It is an elaborate allegory on the psychology of love, often subtle and charming. The...
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courtly love
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...as a literary invention, expressed in such works as Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot (12th cent.), Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose (13th cent.), and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (14th cent.). In these works it...
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