Author : William Langland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780812215618
"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum
Author : Margaret E. Goldsmith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859910774
By examining the various versions of the poem, Dr Goldsmith shows that the enigmatic Piers Plowman is a consistent figure despite many apparent contradictions.
Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107043638
A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Also available as Open Access.
Author : William Langland
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 148750246X
It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet's words and the lawyer's world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England's great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions' representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem's narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland's mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists.
Author : William Langland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141960922
Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.
Author : Nicolette Zeeman
Publisher :
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198860242
This volume offers original readings of Piers Plowman and rethinks the genre of allegorical narrative in the Middle Ages. It presents five studies of allegorical narratives with implications for different aspects of medieval culture.
Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139867326
Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new historical discoveries, and new investigations of its literary, cultural and theoretical scope have fundamentally altered the very meaning of Langland's art. This Companion thus critically surveys traditional scholarship, with the aim of recuperating its best insights, and it ventures forth into newer areas of inquiry attuned to questions of social setting, institutional context, intellectual and literary history, theory, and the revitalized fields of codicology and paleography. By proceeding through chapters that offer cumulatively wider views as well as stand-alone analyses of topics most crucial to understanding Piers Plowman, this Companion gives serious students and seasoned scholars alike up-to-date knowledge of this intricate and beautiful poem.
Author : Michael A. Calabrese
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813062709
William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman is becoming ever more popular in medieval English literature courses. But most current introductions focus primarily on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for the poem's study. As Piers Plowman continues to gain academic attention in all its three versions (the A, B, and C texts), teachers and students need a new perspective and new approach to the poem as an evolving whole. This first comprehensive introduction to Langland's masterful work covers all three iterations and outlines the various changes that occurred between each. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical notes about Langland, and keys to characters and proper pronunciation. Calabrese's definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
Author : William Langland
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781840221039
An allegorical satire on alliterative verse, describing the vision of the 14th-century poet who falls asleep in the Malvern Hills. Langland covers all aspects of political and theological debate, and echoing common sentiments in its satire of the corrupt church, especially the Friars.
