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William Langland's
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: William Langland
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-12 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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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
Piers the Ploughman
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: William Langland
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-26 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful med
An Introduction to Piers Plowman
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Michael A. Calabrese
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-30 - Publisher:

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The author covers all three iterations of William Langland's Piers Plowman and discusses the various changes that occurred from one revision to the next, making
Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Rebecca Ann Davis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Rebecca Davis explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. By contextualizing Langl
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Arvind Thomas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-07 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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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 wha