{"product_id":"public-piers-plowman","title":"Public Piers Plowman","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourteenth-century alliterative poem \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman \u003c\/i\u003ewas widely popular in its own day. The number of its surviving manuscripts ranks just below that of Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e. Although the poem has been the subject of some interesting recent critical scholarship, it continues to be marginalized by medievalists and non-medievalists alike. According to C. David Benson, this is because the tendency of modern criticism has been to read \u003ci\u003ePiers\u003c\/i\u003e as an autobiography mired in the singular intellectual obsessions of its author or as a recondite exploration of theological and political issues. In \u003ci\u003ePublic Piers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e, Benson returns the poem to the center of late medieval English culture by treating it as a public rather than a personal or elite work. In the process, Benson makes this great poem more accessible, exciting, and necessary to modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224723116376,"sku":"9780271024752","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780271024752_69685f33-8cc2-4ae7-8860-a52eade636be.jpg?v=1769769942","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/public-piers-plowman","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}