A01=M Teresa Tavormina
Active Life
Author_M Teresa Tavormina
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Community
Covetise
Divine Exemplar
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Exegesis
Family
Grace
Image of God
Law
Marriage
Nature
Piers Plowman
Social History
Theology
Product details
- ISBN 9780859914543
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 1995
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The imagery of marriage and the family in Piers Plowmanrelated to contemporary social history.
Kindly Similitude is the first study to offer a detailed reading of the many passages in Piers Plowman A, B, and C concerned with marriage and family, and to place them within the frameworks of contemporary social history, law, theology, exegesis, and literature. The author shows how Langland draws on the experiences of familial life both literally and metaphorically to further his expositions of law and love, nature and grace, the image of God in individuals and society, the use of time and material goods, the perversion of right relationships through covetise, and doing well in the active life. For Langland, an unmistakably public poet, the marital householdis inextricably linked to religious, economic, and political institutions. It reflects and transmits a divine exemplar of community, and plays a fundamental role in creating the society in which he and his audience must live. Thisimportant new critical approach complements the strong current attention to the poem's intellectual and ecclesiological contexts.
Professor M. TERESA TAVORMINA is at the Department of English, Michigan State University.
