The Four Great Medieval Allegories

  • Le Roman de la Rose. A major allegorical work, it had many lasting influences on western literature, creating entire new genres and development of vernacular languages.
  • The Divine Comedy. Amongst the greatest medieval works, both allegorically and as a work of literature, which was (and remains) hugely popular.
  • Piers Plowman. An encyclopedic array of allegorical devices. Dream-vision; pilgrimage; personification; satire; typological story structure (the dreamer’s progress mirrors the progress of biblical history from the Fall of Adam to Apocalypse).
  • Pearl. A plot based on an anagogical allegory; a dreamer is introduced to heavenly Jerusalem. Focus on the meaning of death. A religious response to Consolation of Philosophy.

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