The Romance of the Rose (Oxford World's Classics)

About this book

This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun who continued de Lorriss work it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every aspect of medieval life from predestination and optics to the Franciscan controversy and the right way to deal with premature hair-loss.