From Translator to Laureate: Imagining the Medieval Author

Description: Surveys medieval notions of authorship from the twelfth century to the late fifteenth century, commenting on topics such as anonymity, laureateship, Mandeville's "Travels," "The Cloud of Unknowing," "The Book of Margery Kempe," and the development of a modern idea of authorship in early print culture. Recurrent and sustained attention to Chaucer's works and to reception of them.