The Author's Name Was Never Attached to a Text

i think a lot of authors showed a keen awareness of how once the text was out of their hands, they really had very little control over it. A writer from the early mediaeval period called alfrich am, tenth century writer, who writes something very similar isin his collection of of saints lives. He says, you know, scribes, please make sure you copy this correctly. And perhaps she knew that in the process of transmission so often authors names were lost. There's another lovely example, which is marie de france, who wrote in anglo norman, which was the language of the kind of educated alite in england after the norman conquest. She