Medieval Theory of Authorship

Alastair Minnis is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University. His Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath is also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"An innovative and important book." (Speculum) "This valuable book . . . poses in a most interesting form the question of the relationship generally between literary theory and literary practice." (Times Higher Education Supplement) "Stimulating and learned. . . . This book should serve as a milestone in medieval literary theory." (Yearbook of English Studies) "No professional medievalist with a serious interest in literature can afford to leave this book unread." (British Book News) "A work of great importance. . . . Minnis's effort takes its own direction and impressively breaks new ground . . . he has helped lay the course theoretical criticism of medieval literature will have to pursue for years to come. It is this originality which most makes Medieval Theory of Authorship the important book that it is." (Studies in the Age of Chaucer)