Why are many medieval poems anonymous?

A. Historians don’t care about finding authors
B. The authors’ names were written in a different language
C. Most poems were passed down orally
D. It was trendy to sign poems “anonymous.”

A lot of poems then were signed "anonymous" because of a lack of documents from that period, but also because it was a trend to recreate classical poems and claimed they were handed down from an auctor (latin word for author). So the names of the people who re-wrote or embellished the original poems were not considered important.

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Why are many medieval poems anonymous? A. Historians don’t care about finding authors B. The authors’ names were written in a different language C. Most poems were passed down orally D. It was trendy to sign poems “anonymous.”

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Why are many medieval poems anonymous?

A. Historians don’t care about finding authors
B. The authors’ names were written in a different language
C. Most poems were passed down orally
D. It was trendy to sign poems “anonymous.”