Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
Contents:
Prelude: Bede and the denial of authorship -- Walter Map: authorship and counter-authorship -- Marie de France: signature and invention -- John Gower: scriptor, compositor, auctor -- Geoffrey Chaucer: imitation and refusal -- Simulating authorship: Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate -- Thomas Hoccleve: "sum of the doctrine" -- John Lydgate and the "stile counterfet" -- Afterword: The afterlife of medieval authorship.
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