Minot, Laurence

Minot, Laurence

▪ English author
flourished 1333–52

      English author of 11 battle songs, preserved in an early 15th-century manuscript, first published by the antiquarian Joseph Ritson in 1795 as Poems on Interesting Events in the Reign of King Edward III. Minot's poems were evidently written contemporaneously with the events they describe; the first celebrates the English triumph over the Scots at Halidon Hill (1333) and the last the capture of the French fiefdom Guines (1352). Nothing is known of Minot's life, but he probably accompanied Edward on some of his campaigns. The poems are vigorously, if somewhat crudely, written in heavily alliterated rhyming verse.

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