Debate of the Romance of the Rose »

David F. Hult is professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, and the editor or coeditor of six books.

In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly ...

Biography

David F. Hult is professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, and the editor or coeditor of six books.

Acknowledgments

Series Editors’ Introduction

Volume Editor’s Introduction

Volume Editor’s Bibliography

I Christine and the Rose before the Debate

1. From Christine de Pizan, The God of Love’s Letter (May 1, 1399)

2. From Christine de Pizan, Moral Teachings (1399 or 1402?)

3. From Christine de Pizan, The Debate of Two Lovers (1400?)

II The Debate: First Phase

4. Jean de Montreuil to Pierre d’Ailly (Late May 1401)

5. Christine de Pizan to Jean de Montreuil (June–July 1401)

6. Jean de Montreuil to a Lawyer (July–August 1401)

7. Jean de Montreuil to a Prelate (July–August 1401)

8. Jean de Montreuil to Gontier Col (July–August 1401)

9. Jean de Montreuil to a Prelate (July–August 1401)

10. Jean de Montreuil to a Lawyer (July–August 1401)

11. Pierre d’Ailly, The Devout Soul’s Garden of Love (Summer 1401?)

12. From Jean Gerson, Considerate lilia (August 25, 1401)

13. Gontier Col to Christine de Pizan (September 13, 1401)

14. Gontier Col to Christine de Pizan (September 15, 1401)

15. Christine de Pizan to Gontier Col (Late September 1401)

16. Christine de Pizan to Isabeau de Bavière (February 1, 1402)

17. Christine de Pizan to Guillaume de Tignonville (February 1, 1402)

18. Christine de Pizan, Account of the Debate (February 1, 1402) 

III The Debate: Second Phase

19. Jean de Montreuil to a Great Poet (Either February / March or July / August 1402)

20. Jean Gerson, Treatise against the Romance of the Rose (May 18, 1402)

21. Pierre Col to Christine de Pizan (Late Summer 1402)

22. Christine de Pizan to Pierre Col (October 2, 1402)

23. Pierre Col to Christine de Pizan (Fragment, November 1402)

IV Aftermath

24. From Jean Gerson, Sermons of the Poenitemini Series (December 1402)

25. Christine de Pizan, Ballade Addressed to the Queen of France (January 1, 1403)

26. Christine de Pizan, Rondeau Addressed to a Lord (January 1, 1403?)

27. Christine de Pizan, Ballade to an Unknown Addressee (January 1, 1403?)

28. Jean Gerson to Pierre Col (Winter 1402–3)

29. Jean de Montreuil to a High- Ranking Prelate (1403–4) 

V Christine’s Later Mentions of the Romance of the Rose

30. From Christine de Pizan, Book of Fortune’s Transformation (November 1403)

31. From Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

32. From Christine de Pizan, Christine’s Vision (1405)

33. From Christine de Pizan, Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry (1410)

Series Editors’ Bibliography

Index of People and Places

Index of Allegorical Personifications and Mythological and Fictional Characters