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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: 375
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
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
Piers Plowman
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: William Langland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-20 - Publisher: McFarland

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William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorica
Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma
Language: en
Pages: 636
Authors: Curtis A. Gruenler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-30 - Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

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In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better under