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Jean de Meung
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Jean de Meung (c. 1240–c. 1305)

French poet. He is best known for his remarkable 18,000-line continuation, written about 1277, of the Roman de la Rose begun by Guillaume de Lorris. With Jean de Meung the allegory becomes a vehicle for giving forthright critical views on topics such as government, monasticism, and women, allowing him to display his wide scholarship. Other works include translations from Vegetius and Boethius.



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Both Jean de Meun and the Fauvel compilers are investigating the extent to which the idea of authorship is
Articulating the author: Gower and the French Vernacular Codex by Butterfield, Ardis / Yearbook of English Studies
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
L'obscene et le sacre, ou l'utilisation paradoxale du rire dans le Roman de la rose de Jean de Meun.
Gracious Laughter: Marsilio Ficino's Anthropology by O'Rourke Boyle, Marjorie / Renaissance Quarterly
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