Question

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.”

Answer 1

I'm going to say D.

Step-by-step explanation:

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.