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.
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A Companion to Piers Plowman
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520060074
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1eBook ISBN
9780520908314
Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION: The Critical Heritage
- I. PIERS PLOWMAN AND THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
- 1. The Design of the Poem
- 2. The Historical Context
- 3. Langland's Theology
- II. GENERIC INFLUENCES ON PIERS PLOWMAN
- 4. Allegorical Visions
- 5. Satire
- 6. Medieval Sermons
- III. THE TEXT AND LANGUAGE OF PIERS PLOWMAN
- 7. The Text
- 8. Dialect and Grammar
- 9. Alliterative Style
- EPILOGUE: The Legacy of Piers Plowman
- Index
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