Interrogates the development of medieval English discourse through a theoretical framing of Caribbean literary history. The book interrogates the ways in which medieval considerations of sociopolitical ills, such as an ambience of iniquity, led to a specific poetics of medieval English as a language expressing popular struggle. The work engages multiple conversations in postcolonial theory, literary theory, vernacularization, and historiography. Lalla makes critical interventions on the theoretical plane, reversing prevalent theoretical-historiographical lenses to better adjudicate an English context from a postcolonial context.