Laurence Minot

Laurence Minot

Laurence Minot (1300? – 1352?) was a poet. Nothing is certainly known of him. He may have been a soldier. He celebrates in northern English and with a somewhat ferocious patriotism the victories of Edward III over the Scots and the French.

External links

*Laurence Minot, Joseph Hall (editor). [http://www.archive.org/details/poemsoflaurencem00minouoft "The Poems of Minot"] . Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1914.
*Laurence Minot, Richard H. Osberg (editor). [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/teams/minot.htm "The Poems of Laurence Minot 1332-1352"] , Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997.


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