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'La Cort d'Amor': A Critical Edition. Ed. by MATTHEW BARDELL. (Research Monographs in French Studies, 11). Oxford: Legenda. 2002. x+169 pp. 19.50 [pounds sterling]; $29.50. ISBN 1-900755-66-1.
Matthew Bardell's critical edition of La Cort d'Amor will bring a wider scholarly readership to this little-known medieval Occitan allegorical romance. A likely precursor to Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose, this unfinished, 1721-line text has an important place in the tradition of allegorical literature, and has numerous points of contact with amatory treatises such as Ovid's Ars...
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