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The Symbol of the Rose in The Middle Ages

Dec 7, 2025

Roses as Symbols

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We’re in the year 1230, deep in the Middle Ages. In France, Guillaume de Lorris begins Le Roman de la Rose—a dreamlike allegory written decades before Dante’s Divina Commedia. In those times, people didn’t aspire to fame or influence. They aspired to spiritual perfection, to earning love as a form of inner completion. A true…