The form is common in late medieval Italian poetry.
Because most of what we have was written down by clerics, much of extant medieval poetry is religious.
There survives a small body of medieval Scottish poetry.
Far more interesting than the appearance of the golden line in ancient and medieval poetry is the use of the term by these modern critics.
The form stems from medieval French poetry - the earliest written examples are from the late 13th century.
This meter formed the basis for all subsequent medieval Hebrew poetry.
Schöpflin taught Goethe in 1770 and 1771, imparting to his student a love of history and especially medieval poetry.
They introduced him to medieval Italian poetry, the forms and stories of which he would use later.
In studying medieval French poetry, he formulated the concept of mouvance (variability).
He also emphasised "vocality" in medieval poetry, the place of the human voice.