Eschatological Subjects: Divine and Literary Judgment in 14th-Century French Poetry

This book examines how poets cast themselves as defendants summoned to answer to God for the sins of their writing. Since medieval Europeans lived in perpetual anxiety of divine judgment, constantly surrounded by reminders in art and literature, Moreau — a former Mellon postdoctoral fellow of French studies at Brown and now an independent scholar — shows that this is a natural extension of medieval life.