Venus's Clerk

Abstract

Ovid was considered a love poet by medieval readers and writers. This chapter represents a survey of the reception of Ovid's amatory works—in particular the Ars amatoria and the Heroides—in the medieval West (1100–1450), including the Latin imitation of Heroides in the Loire school of the early twelfth century; the appropriation of the Ars amatoria by Heloise, Andreas Capellanus, Jean de Meun, and the critique of the Ars amatoria by Christine de Pizan; the vernacular translations of the Ars amatoria and the Heroides; and Chaucer's reworking of both the Ars amatoria and the Heroides.

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