An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France: From Le Roman de la Rose to La Belle Dame sans Mercy

How medieval poems sparked discussions on women’s agency, love, marriage, and honor that prefigured modern feminism

This volume immerses readers in a debate tradition that flourished in France during the late Middle Ages, focusing on two works that were both popular and controversial in their time:

by thirteenth-century poets Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun and

by fifteenth-century royal secretary and poet Alain Chartier

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