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Rutebeuf

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Rutebeuf

French poet. He wrote lyric and satirical verse, saints' lives, fabliaux (comic verses), and a miracle play. His lyric poetry is often self-pitying and occasionally profound, and his satire is largely directed against the mendicant orders and the hypocrisy and failings of clerics in general.



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He looks at songs by Gautier de Coinci, Thibaut de Champaigne, Jocques de Cambrai, and Rutebeuf.
The Romance of the Rose is interpreted as the confluence of two major trends: Christianized Platonism (which is supposed to come to an end) and the beginning of "contingent subjectivism" which is even more noticeable in the works of "realist" poets such as Rutebeuf and Francois Villon.
 
 
 
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