John of Garland, “Integumenta Ovidii”

Text, Translation, and Commentary

Edited and translated by Kyle Gervais

Book cover: John of Garland, “Integumenta Ovidii”

Extent: 220 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: TEAMS Secular Commentary Series

Language: English, Latin

Paperback (Published)

(October 2022)

ISBN: 9781580445269

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $79.00

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ISBN: 9781580445283

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John of Garland’s Integumenta Ovidii, a thirteenth-century allegoresis of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: newly edited and translated, with explanatory and textual notes.


The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii (“Allegories on Ovid”) in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John’s condensed allegories in their medieval context. Textual notes discuss the various difficulties in the transmitted text of the poem, and offer several improvements on the texts of the older editions.

Preface Abbreviations Introduction Integumenta Ovidii Notes Notes on the Text Bibliography Index,

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Text and Translation
Explanatory Notes
Notes on the Text
Bibliography

Kyle Gervais is associate professor at the University of Western Ontario.

  • Edited and translated by Kyle Gervais