Epilogue

Abstract

The Epilogue discusses Ovid’s reception in the Middle Ages, in order to recapitulate the main theoretical approaches of the book. Ovid’s jurisprudence of love had a major impact on Forcadel’s Cupido Jurisperitus and Boccaccio’s Decameron. Within the long tradition of Ovidian receptions, the current trend to simultaneously study and marginalize legal discourse in Ovid is anomalous. The brief discussion of the juridico-discursive reception of Ovid will hopefully open new avenues not only in Ovidian studies, but also in the field of law and literature.