Textual Subjectivity brings to Medieval poems for the first time an approach which denies the need to understand them as expressions of individual consciousness. Modern theory liberates medieval narratives and lyrics from interpretative assumptions so deep-rooted as to have become invisible, and leads to original readings of major and minor poems. ...refreshing and important... This is a book, in short, that should be read and pondered by every medievalist, and by most modernists too: a clear breeze that disperses the obfuscations of many decades to leave the poets visible once again.