Invention and authorship in medieval England

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.