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Author: William Langland
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-01-26
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0141960922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten 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: William Langland
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812215618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Arvind Thomas
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 148750246X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt 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: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780192836465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new translation of the B-text is provided with an Introduction and extensive Notes which place the work in its contemporary setting and offer a full interpretative commentary on the poem.
Author: William Langland
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Published: 1995
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Myra Stokes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-05
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0429589891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published by 1984 Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman provides a clear and informative introduction to the complexities of Langland’s Piers Plowman. It identifies Langland’s major concerns and shows in detail, passus by passus, how these are developed by him in the first part of the poem – the Visio. It offers a close reading of the text and draws parallels where relevant with other medieval writings. There is a final brief chapter on the Vita which outlines the chief ways in which the themes of justice, mercy and law that have been followed through Visio continue to be of major importance in the rest of the poem. By concentrating on the philosophical core of the work, the climate of thought in which Langland wrote and the thematic integrity of the poem as a whole, the author makes a difficult, but unique and fascinating poem more accessible.
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780520062306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Langland
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1421401401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.
Author: William Langland
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-10-20
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0786495030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity, alongside Falsehood and Guile, are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world. This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Michael A. Calabrese
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813062709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam 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.
