Jean de Meun

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Romance of the Rose, in French France, Rouen, ca.

Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands 2011

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Romance of the Rose, in French France, Paris, ca.

Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands 2011

Jean de Meun, of course, wrote a more optimistic continuation; but that's another poem entirely.

Archive 2005-02-01 2005

Among the translators were two of the greatest vernacular writers of the whole epoch: Jean de Meun, who put the Consolation into Old French in the later thirteenth century, and Chaucer, who translated it into Middle English about a century later.

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Marenbon, John 2005

Jean de Meun, of course, wrote a more optimistic continuation; but that's another poem entirely.

Seduction and Guillaume de Lorris's Romance of the Rose 2005

Jean de Meun, forty years later, continued the edifice, and was not sparing of gargoyles, mocking, grotesque, and indecent.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Rose_, an allegorical poem in French, by William de Lorris, continued, after his death in 1260, by Jean de Meun, who figured as a poet in the court of Charles le Bel, of France.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Jean de Meun "oncques n'ot acointance ne hantise de femme honorable ne vertueuse, mais par plusieurs femmes dissolues et de male vie hanter, comme font communément les luxurieux cuida ou faingny savoir que toutes telles feussent car d'autres n'avoit congnoissance."

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Thomas or Beroul -- but it also includes the mordant satire of the Renard poetry and of Jean de Meun, and the gross realistic humour of the

Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903

The national epopee was dead; the Arthurian tales were rehandled in prose; under the influence of the _Roman de la Rose_, allegory was highly popular, and Jean de Meun had shown how it could be applied to the secularisation of learning; the middle classes were seeking for instruction.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878