Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle AgesIt has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Alastair Minnis asks, Is it not better to search again for a conceptual equipment which is at once historically