Book Of The IncipitAn intriguing evaluation of the concept of beginnings in the medieval period. Medieval Studies Literary Theory An intriguing evaluation of the concept of beginnings in the medieval period. In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of Englands late Middle Ages the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as