ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book utilizes various types of evidence in the reconstruction of the six lives. It investigates literature (poetry and/or prose), music, and an administrative document. The book deals with records and accounts of the royal household as does the reconstruction of The Anonymous Witness which also focuses on a printed pamphlet. It emphasises the ways that the disparate nature of the fragments which remain of individual lives helps to resist the production of seamless grand narratives of a historical period. The book proposes that that individual lives should not be taken as simply representative of a specific period in history. There is a pervading sense of the fluid boundary existing between attitudes towards the old apparently 'Medieval' forms and the new forms which are conventionally associated with a Renaissance society.
