Songs and rhymed couplets responding to political events are doubtless among the most productive texts of the Late Middle Ages. In the form of accounts, commentaries, and reports, they describe past and contemporary battles, sieges, and other important occurrences. Doreen Brandt has written the first study to consider various genres of event-related literature in their printed and written forms.
Doreen Brandt
Ereignisdichtung Überlieferungsgeschichte Handschriften des 16. Jahrhunderts Poems on historical events history of tradition 16th-c. manuscripts