A
A01=Michael A. Calabrese
activist
allegory
Alliterative poetry
An Introduction to Piers Plowman
anti-fraternal satire
Author_Michael A. Calabrese
B
bell the cat
Bible
bribery
bull
C Text
Category=DSBB
Category=DSC
Christ
church
civil law
conscience
covetousness
crucifixion
Dobet
Dowel
dream
envy
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
field of folk
fourteenth century
free will
friar
gluttony
God
Gospels
Jesus
Job
John But
King Richard II
Lady Mede
lechery
Lucifer
marriage
Marxism
medieval
Michael Calabrese
Middle English literature
Moses
peace
pena
penance
pilgrimage
plague
Pope
pre-reformation
pride
Psalms
religion
repentance
Rokele
salvation
Samaritan
Seven Deadly Sins
Simony
sloth
social justice
St. Paul
statute of labourers
theology
Trajan
Truth
violence
William Langland
wrath
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062709
- Weight: 573g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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William Langland’s allegorical poem Piers Plowman is becoming ever-more popular in medieval English literature courses. But most current introductions focus primarily on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for the poem’s study. As Piers Plowman continues to gain academic attention in all its three versions (the A, B, and C-texts), teachers and students need a new perspective and new approach to the poem as an evolving whole.
This first comprehensive introduction to Langland’s masterful work covers all three iterations and outlines the various changes that occurred between each. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical notes about Langland, and keys to characters and proper pronunciation. Calabrese’s definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
This first comprehensive introduction to Langland’s masterful work covers all three iterations and outlines the various changes that occurred between each. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical notes about Langland, and keys to characters and proper pronunciation. Calabrese’s definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
Michael Calabrese, professor of English at California State University, USA, is author of Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love.
