This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at

In the first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, Harriet Soper reveals how poets depicted varied paths through life, including their s

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still inf

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.