The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman

The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman
Author: Andrew Cole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107009189

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

The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman

The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman
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An essential companion to the complex and fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring research with a provocative range of new directions for studying it. Lucid chapters by leading experts provide the most exciting vistas of studying Piers Plowman in the twenty-first century.

'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
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2006-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 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.

Reading Piers Plowman

Reading Piers Plowman
Author: Emily Steiner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2013-05-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 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.

William Langland's "Piers Plowman"

William Langland's
Author: William Langland
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1996-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 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

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500
Author: Larry Scanlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2009-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139827375

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The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in English. Exploring the period's key authors - Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-Poet, Margery Kempe, among many - and genres - plays, romances, poems and epics - the book offers an overview of the riches of medieval writing. The essays map out the flourishing field of medieval literary studies and point towards new directions and approaches. Designed to be accessible to students, the book also features a chronology and guide to further reading.

The Myth of Piers Plowman

The Myth of Piers Plowman
Author: Lawrence Warner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107043638

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A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Also available as Open Access.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500
Author: Larry Scanlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2009-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521841674

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A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
Author: Candace Barrington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107180783

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A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture
Author: Andrew Galloway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2011-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107495202

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The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, religion and the history of education. Above all it looks at the literature of medieval England in Latin, French and English, plus post-medieval perspectives on the 'Middle Ages'. In a linked series of essays experts in these areas show the complex relationships between them, building up a broad account of rich patterns of life and literature in this period. The essays are supplemented by a chronology and guide to further reading, helping students build on the unique access this volume provides to what can seem a very foreign culture.