New PDF release: The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman (Cambridge

By Andrew Cole,Andrew Galloway

ISBN-10: 1107009189

ISBN-13: 9781107009189

ISBN-10: 1107401585

ISBN-13: 9781107401587

Piers Plowman has lengthy been one of the best poems of medieval England. present scholarship in this alliterative masterpiece appears to be like very assorted from that on hand even a decade in the past. New information regarding the manuscripts of the poem, new historic discoveries, and new investigations of its literary, cultural and theoretical scope have essentially altered the very which means of Langland's paintings. This significant other therefore seriously surveys conventional scholarship, with the purpose of recovering its most sensible insights, and it ventures forth into more moderen parts of inquiry attuned to questions of social surroundings, institutional context, highbrow and literary background, thought, and the revitalized fields of codicology and paleography. through continuing via chapters that supply cumulatively wider perspectives in addition to stand-alone analyses of subject matters most important to realizing Piers Plowman, this significant other provides critical scholars and pro students alike up to date wisdom of this tricky and gorgeous poem.

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