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Jean de Meun

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Jean de Meun (zhäN də möN), d. 1305, French poet, also known as Jean Chopinel (or Clopinel) of Meung-sur-Loire. He wrote the second part of the Roman de la Rose Roman de la Rose, Le , French poem of 22,000 lines in eight-syllable couplets. It is in two parts. The first (4,058 lines) was written (c.1237) by Guillaume de Lorris and was left unfinished.
..... Click the link for more information.  and made translations from Latin, including the letters of Abelard to Heloise. Called by some the Voltaire of the Middle Ages, Jean de Meun was a man of encyclopedic knowledge, a fearless thinker, and a satirical writer.
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The trick that Jean de Meun plays occurs in the mid-point of the conjoined text: in a speech by Amor, the Lover, Amant, is suddenly named as Guillaume de Lorris.
Articulating the author: Gower and the French Vernacular Codex by Butterfield, Ardis / Yearbook of English Studies
] (Dahlberg 1971: 113) Jean de Meun seems to be anticipating Chaucer's Knight's Tale, in which the judicial process -- by which the judge Saturn decrees that Venus (Love), not Mars (conflict and war), will win, is overturned and disrupted by some invisible agent (his son Jupiter, representative of Duc Theseus), to whom is attributed order and universal harmony.
Representing rebellion: the ending of Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the ... by Chance, Jane / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Jean de Meun, Durante and Bindo Bonichi.
Bibliography of Italian Studies in North America by Giordano, Paolo A. / Italica
 
 
 
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