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Book Piers Plowman

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by Joseph Wittig and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete Concordance to the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman in the Athlone Press editions. Each word in the vocabulary of the three versions (approximately 5,400) is listed alphabetically in its order of occurrence within the particular version, in the succession A, B, C. Except for a few words of extremely frequent occurrence such as the definite and indefinite articles, common conjunctions and the personal pronouns (all these are indexed) each occurrence of each word is listed within its line of context. Words of similar spelling are, where called for, lexicographically distinguished, as are parts of speech. A system of cross-reference to a headword allows for the variety of spelling and dialect forms, and those forms and their frequency are given after the headword. The Latin and French elements in the three texts are concorded in Appendices. The Concordance will prove to be an indispensable tool for the study of the content, language and style of Langland's poems.

Book Piers Plowman Concordance

Download or read book Piers Plowman Concordance written by Joseph S. Wittig and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2006 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concordance to the A, B and C texts of Langland's 'Piers Plowman', one of the major medieval literary works. It contains the vocabulary of the three versions, listed alphabetically in order of occurrence within each version. It is a useful aid to the study of the content, language and style of Langland's poems.

Book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision of Piers Plowman pt 1 A L

Download or read book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision of Piers Plowman pt 1 A L written by Tomonori Matsushita and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concordance to the corrected 2nd edition (1997) edited by A.V.C. Schmidt and published by J.M. Dent.

Book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision of Piers Plowman

Download or read book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision of Piers Plowman written by Tomonori Matsushita and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concordance to the corrected 2nd edition (1997) edited by A.V.C. Schmidt and published by J.M. Dent.

Book Piers Plowman Concordance

Download or read book Piers Plowman Concordance written by Joseph S. Wittig and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision Pf Piers Plowman

Download or read book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision Pf Piers Plowman written by Tomonori Matsushita and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision of Piers Plowman Supplement 2

Download or read book A Glossarial Concordance to William Langland s The Vision of Piers Plowman Supplement 2 written by 松下知紀 and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 農夫ピアズの夢の初めてのコンコーダンス 3

Book The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Volume 1

Download or read book The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Volume 1 written by Andrew Galloway and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.

Book Approaches to Teaching Langland s Piers Plowman

Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Langland s Piers Plowman written by Thomas A. Goodmann and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of dream visions, Piers Plowman is a moral reckoning of the whole of medieval England, in which every part of society--from church and king to every sort of "folk"--is considered in the light of the narrator's interpretation of Christian revelation. The Middle English poem, rich and beautiful, is a particular challenge to teach: it exists in three versions, lacks a continuous narrative, is written in a West Midlands dialect, weaves a complex allegory, and treats complicated social and political issues, such as labor, Lollardy, and popular uprising. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses the different versions, critical and classroom editions, and translations of the poem, as well as the many secondary sources. Part 2, "Approaches," helps students engage with the poem's versification, understand its protagonist and its treatment of poverty and equity, and discern connections to the work of other medieval poets, such as Dante and Chaucer.

Book Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

Download or read book Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman written by Sarah Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman, Sarah Wood offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the three versions have customarily been read in parallel-text formats, she demonstrates that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if read in sequence.

Book The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Volume 4

Download or read book The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Volume 4 written by Traugott Lawler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of its multiple revisions reveals new aspects of the poem's meaning while assessing and summarizing a complex and often divisive scholarly tradition. The volumes offer an up-to-date, original, and open-ended guide to a poem whose engagement with its social world is unrivaled in English literature, and whose literary, religious, and intellectual accomplishments are uniquely powerful. The Penn Commentary is designed to be equally useful to readers of the A, B, or C texts of the poem. It is geared to readers eager to have detailed experience of Piers Plowman and other medieval literature, possessing some basic knowledge of Middle English language and literature, and interested in pondering further the particularly difficult relationships to both that this poem possesses. Others, with interest in poetry of all periods, will find the extended and detailed commentary useful precisely because it does not seek to avoid the poem's challenges but seeks instead to provoke thought about its intricacy and poetic achievements. Covering passūs C.15-19 and B.13-17, Volume 4 of the Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" creates a complete vade mecum for readers, identifying and translating all Latin quotations, uncovering allusions, providing full cross-reference to other parts of the poem, drawing in relevant scholarship, and unraveling difficult passages. Like the other commentaries in the series, this volume contains an extensive overview and analysis of each passus, and the subdivisions within, large and small, and discusses all differences between the two versions. It pays careful attention to the poem at the literal level as well as to Latin texts that are analogues or even possible sources of Langland's thought and it emphasizes the comedy of the poem, of which these passūs offer a number of examples.

Book Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman

Download or read book Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman written by Alastair Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in the parish. It dramatises preaching as part of its allegorical action, showing how sermons shaped their listeners' understanding of the world; it also includes polemical critique of corrupt, self-interested preaching, and offers radical prescriptions for its reform. This book argues that Langland's central insight into the way that sermons moved and engaged their audiences had to do with their characteristic use of narrative. Preachers in the poem address listeners who are absorbed in the concerns of their present moment, and encourage them to new forms of social and spiritual endeavour by locating that moment in a larger, interpreted plot: the story of an individual life, or an emergent community, or of salvation history as a whole. The book employs a critical vocabulary derived from Paul Ricoeur to describe the process by which these narratives are composed, and to show how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.

Book Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law

Download or read book Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law written by Arvind Thomas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet's words and the lawyer's world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England's great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions' representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem's narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland's mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists.