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Jean de Meun presents his French translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy to Margaret of Anjou in a fanciful miniature from the 15th-century manuscript Jena, Bibliothek der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Ms. fol. 85

Jean de Meun (or de Meung, French: [ʒɑ̃ mœ̃]) (c. 1240 – c. 1305) was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.[1]

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Jean de Meun

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Jean de Meun (or de Meung, French: [ʒɑ̃ də mœ̃]) (c. 1240 – c. 1305) was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose. He was...

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Roman de la Rose

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Douce 364, folio 8r) Langlois, Ernest, ed. Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun. 5 vols. Société des Anciens Textes Français. Paris:...

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Guillaume de Lorris

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completed forty years later by Jean de Meun. He is only known by mention of Jean de Meun, (de Meung in French), in Roman de la Rose. de Lorris' poem was translated...

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List of illuminated manuscripts

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de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose) The Hague, Musee Meermanno-Westreenianum, MS 10 B 29 (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la...

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On the Consolation of Philosophy

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vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred (Old English), Jean de Meun (Old French), Geoffrey Chaucer (Middle English), Queen Elizabeth I (Early...

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Letters of Abelard and Heloise

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century, the story of their love affair was summarised by Jean de Meun in the Le Roman de la Rose. Chaucer makes a brief reference in the Wife of Bath's...

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Christine de Pizan

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literary controversy, the "Querelle du Roman de la Rose". Christine questioned the literary merits of Jean de Meun's popular Romance of the Rose, which satirizes...

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Jean Gerson

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Tract. contra romantiam de rosa (iii. 297) he warns against the irreverent Roman de la rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun—a position in which he...

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13th century in literature

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Nuts) Bonvesin da la Riva – Libro de le tre scritture (Negra, Rubra, Aurea; Western Lombard) c. 1275 – Jean de Meun – Second section of Romance of the...

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Medieval French literature

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Perceforest Gui de Warewic (1232–1242) Roman de la Rose ("Romance of the Rose") – Guillaume de Lorris (around 1225–1237) and Jean de Meun (1266–1277) The...

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Adonis

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medieval French poet Jean de Meun retells the story of Adonis in his additions to the Roman de la Rose, written around 1275. De Muen moralises the story...

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The Romaunt of the Rose

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allegory of what D. S. Brewer called fine amour. About 40 years later, Jean de Meun continued the poem with 17,724 additional lines. In contrasting the two...

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working in the Gothic style. Jean de Meun, French poet and writer, translates Vegetius' 4th century military treatise De Re Militari from Latin into French...

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Gentleman

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allegorical poem The Romance of the Rose (ca. 1400), Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun described the innate character of a gentleman: "He is gentil bycause...

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De re militari

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appeared at Ulm in 1475. It was translated into English, French (by Jean de Meun and others), Italian (by the Florentine judge Bono Giamboni and others)...

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Vegetius

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dating from before AD 1300." It was translated into English, French (by Jean de Meun and others), Italian (by the Florentine judge Bono Giamboni and others)...

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Consolation of Philosophy and The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (extended by Jean de Meun). Eustache Deschamps called himself a "nettle in Chaucer's...

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Chivalry

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written by Vegetius called De re militari was translated into French in the 13th century as L'Art de chevalerie by Jean de Meun. Later writers also drew...

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Medieval literature

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Divine Love, Julian of Norwich Le Roman de Perceforest Roman de la Rose, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun Sadko, anonymous Russian author Scivias...

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Courtly love

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treatment of courtly love is also found in the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. In it, a man becomes enamored with an individual...

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The Book of the City of Ladies

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The book serves as her formal response to Jean de Meun's popular Roman de la Rose. Pizan combats Meun's statements about women by creating an allegorical...

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Projector

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mirrors has been traced back to a text by French author Jean de Meun in his part of Roman de la Rose (circa 1275). A theory known as the Hockney-Falco...

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Charles I of Anjou

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an unfinished epic poem, entitled The King of Sicily, to Charles and Jean de Meun glorified his victories in the Romance of the Rose. Dante described Charles—"who...

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Black Death in medieval culture

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topics. In her treatise The Letter to the God of Love, she responded to Jean de Meun's anti-woman writings found in his conclusion of Romance of the Rose....

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Palinode

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many medieval writers such as Augustine, Bede, Giraldus Cambrensis, Jean de Meun, Andreas Capellanus, Guittone d'Arezzo Horace, and others. cf. Phaedrus...

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Dream vision

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Revolt Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae Brother Marcus, Visio Tnugdali ("The Vision of Tundale") Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la rose,...

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