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Christian Charity
Complex Poetry
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Fourteenth Century
Intellectual Subtlety
Piers Plowman
Religious Thought
Repentance
Social Frontiers
William Langland
Product details
- ISBN 9780859913126
- Weight: 412g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 1991
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Du Boulay broadens the traditional, literary, view of Langland in this extended study of the poet and his world, the first to be written by a historian this century
Professor Du Boulay's book is both a highly readable introduction to Langland's work and an original contribution to the history of religious thought. It rejects the view that Langland was primarily a political radical or a prophet of doom and sees him as both a great imaginative poet and a preacher of Christian charity. Writing in an age of intellectual subtlety and shifting social frontiers, Langland expressed deep anxieties yet offered to his fellow-Christians a way of interior repentance and practical love, guided by the enigmatic figure of Piers.
