La Cort d'Amor

The Cort d'Amor is a late 12th-century allegorical romance in Occitan which fuses a variety of lyric and narrative genres together and which predates the Roman de la Rose by some 50 years. In this edition, Matthew Bardell highlights the work's intertextuality with Andreas Capellanus' De Amore to show how the Occitan work presents a dialogue between gendered approaches to love whilst parodying the exegetical tradition. It juxtaposes lyric passages with some of the standard Ovidian teaching on lov