The MHRA is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 15 in the Critical Texts series: a new edition of Ovide du remede d’amours, prepared by Tony Hunt.
Ovid’s Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris exercised a great influence on vernacular courtly writing in the Middle Ages. This edition presents the last unpublished Old French translations of the Remedia and provides, in the introduction, an account of the nine Old French translations of the two poems and an analysis of the versions of the Remedia. This is an essential contribution to the history of the vernacularization of school texts in the later Middle Ages, to the study of the influence of Ovid, and to the understanding of medieval translation techniques.