John of Garland, Integumentum Ovidii. Text, Translation, and Commentary by Kyle Gervais. TEAMS: Secular Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2022, xv, 201 pp.

Some of the most exciting features of medieval philosophy and epistemology consist of the willingness to read the natural world allegorically, or as an integument, which altogether allows us today to recognize the essential epistemology pursued in the high Middle Ages. John of Garland was one of the more influential teachers of his time (b. ca. 1195, d. after 1258), and in his