The Medieval French Ovide moralisé [3 Volume Set]

First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages. The anonymous Ovide moralisé ( Moralized Ovid ), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid's Metamorphoses , with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience. Working from the premise that everything in the universe, including the pagan authors of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, is part of God's plan and expresses God's truth even without knowing it, the Ovide morali