Xhosa Tribal Poetry

of accuracy, in paragraph two of Scheps's complaint, he should add "thirteenth-century theologians" to his mention of others and note that they are not cited to "elucidate thirteenthand fourteenth-century poetry" but rather to elucidate certain features of a mythology which was common at that time even among groups as diverse as the Dominicans and Franciscans.(6) Scheps says, "We must inquire as to the general composition of medieval audiences for whom vernacular or public art was created." 1 agree.