A Companion to Piers Plowman
A Companion to Piers Plowman

Author: John A. Alford

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0520908317

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A Companion to Piers Plowman is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece. Until now no single volume has discussed the broad range of issues raised here, nor have previous studies drawn on such an internationally distinguished group of Langland scholars. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. A Companion to Piers Plowman is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece. Until now no single volume has discussed the broad range of issues raised here, nor have previous studies drawn on such an internati

The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman
The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman

Author: Andrew Cole

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-02-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1139867326

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman
The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman

Author: Andrew Cole

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-02-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1107009189

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A comprehensive study of the fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring work with groundbreaking new research.

William Langland's "Piers Plowman"
William Langland's

Author: William Langland

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1996-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780812215618

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"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

An Introduction to Piers Plowman
An Introduction to Piers Plowman

Author: Michael A. Calabrese

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780813062709

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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.

'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire
'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

Author: Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0521856108

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This ambitious study links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Zeeman's radical approach opens up a completely fresh reading of Piers Plowman and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.

Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman

Author: William Langland

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1421401401

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By conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.

Reading Piers Plowman
Reading Piers Plowman

Author: Emily Steiner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-09

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107244331

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Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langland's ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas; for example, about political counsel and gender, the ethics of poverty, Christian and pagan learning, lordship and servitude, and the long history of Christianity. Lucid and comprehensive, Steiner's study teaches us to stay alert to the poem's stunning effects while still making sense of its literary and historical contexts.

Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law

Author: Arvind Thomas

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 148750246X

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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.