Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose), a 13th-century allegory of courtly love—begun by the poet Guillaume de Lorris and completed 40 years later by the more cynical Jean de Meun—is perhaps the Middle Ages’ most popular love poem. --Mary Ruth Yoe, Drawn together, University of Chicago Magazine, March--April 2008


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