Webno thoroughgoing study of the impact of the roman de la rose on middle english literature has hitherto been published, so this wonderful book fills a major gap. Webthis book examines its decisive effect on english literature of the fourteenth century, and new literary experiments it provoked from writers such as geoffrey chaucer, john. Oxford university press, 2022. Philip knox makes a significant contribution to literary history with this intelligent study of the influence of the roman de la rose on a broad corpus of medieval. The rose had a transformative. Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
