Laurence Minot
Encyclopedia
Laurence Minot was an English poet. Nothing is certainly known of him. He may have been a soldier. Eleven poems are attributed to them, all of which appear uniquely in London: British Library, MS Galba E. ix. In them, he celebrates in northern English and with a somewhat ferocious patriotism the victories of Edward III over the Scots
and the French
.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
and the French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
External links
- Laurence Minot, Joseph Hall (editor). The Poems of Minot. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1914.
- Laurence Minot, Richard H. Osberg (editor). The Poems of Laurence Minot 1332-1352, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997.
- Medium Ævum on-line entry on Minot by Joanna Bellis.