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Wow, I didn’t really know anything about this book before…but it sounds SO AWESOME!!! I’m very excited to read it now 🙂 Thanks for the introduction!
I’m enjoying this book.
Ohhh I also didn’t know anything about this book but am extra excited now to read it. Do you by chance have any links to where we can read “Querelle du Roman de la Rose” online?
It’s not a book, it was a discussion/argument (The Quarrel/Debate of the Romance of the Rose). Apparently Christine *started* the discussion by attacking the poem as slanderous, and it turned into an international debate on the status of women.
I’m not finding a lot of easily-accessible information on it online, but there’s a 2010 book called “Debate of the Romance of the Rose (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)” which collects the letters and documents together! It also includes other selections of Christine’s writings. It’s not cheap, but there’s a less-pricey Kindle edition and the first chapter is free. There are also selected pages on Google Books. The book does not seem to be in libraries, so you might not have much luck with an InterLibrary Loan request.
Oops, dangermom is me, Jean. This username thing is tricky…
Ah I assumed it must be somewhere collected and readable as you had said that you read it 🙂 Thanks for the information on where to find it. Too bad it’s not more easily available. I’m guessing you read the poem? Is it available?
Sorry, I didn’t realize I was so unclear! Yes, I read The Romance of the Rose. I got a 1983 prose edition from my college library and found that to be a good choice. I was not able to find the whole thing online for free–just the third volume on Google books. And anyway, it was much easier to read a modern prose translation than to read it in Victorian English verses. You can see my post on it at http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2012/02/romance-of-rose.html if you like.
Thanks for the link and information!
I’m hoping to get a copy of this next week so I can start reading it. It’s one of those books I’ve wanted to read for awhile, so I’m glad it’s part of our 2012 list.
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