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Debating the Roman de la Rose Alan H. B. Wu a thousand years of ancientAround the year 1400, the poet Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate in France over the literary "truth" and merit of the Roman of the Rose, perhaps the most renowned work of the French Middle Ages. She argued against what she considered to be misrepresentations of female virtue and vice in the Rose. Her bold objections aroused the support and opposition of some of the periods most famous intellectuals, notable Jean Gerson, whose sermons on the