The Cort d'Amor is a unique late twelfth-century allegorical romance in Occitan which predates the Roman de la Rose by some 50 years. Matthew Bardell highlights the work's intertextual relationship with Andreas Capellanus's De Amore, and shows how the Occitan work presents a dialogue between gendered approaches to love while parodying the exegetical tradition. The work juxtaposes exquisite lyric passages with some of the standard Ovidian teaching on love and undermines the reader's attempts to distinguish between the two. This edition, with a facing English translation, makes an important contribution to the study of medieval allegory and courtly love in general, as well as to the dissemination of Ovid in the Middle Ages.