Authorship and First-Person Allegory in Late Medieval France and England

An examination of medieval vernacular allegories, across a number of languages, offers a new idea of what authorship meant in the late middle ages.

The emergence of vernacular allegories in the middle ages, recounted by a first-person narrator-protagonist, invites both abstract and specific interpretations of the author''s role, since the protagonist who claims to compose thenarrative also directs ...