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Book William Langland s  Piers Plowman

Download or read book William Langland s Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum

Book Piers the Ploughman

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2006-01-26
  • ISBN : 0141960922
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Piers the Ploughman written by William Langland and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Book Piers Plowman

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-09-07
  • ISBN : 9781726495486
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piers Plowman By William Langland Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Book Piers Plowman

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780520046320
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Piers Plowman

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-10-06
  • ISBN : 0786495030
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity, alongside Falsehood and Guile, are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world. This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book The Vision of Piers the Plowman

Download or read book The Vision of Piers the Plowman written by William Langland and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Book Piers Plowman

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An allegorical satire on alliterative verse, describing the vision of the 14th-century poet who falls asleep in the Malvern Hills. Langland covers all aspects of political and theological debate, and echoing common sentiments in its satire of the corrupt church, especially the Friars.

Book The Vision of Piers Plowman

Download or read book The Vision of Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by Everyman Paperback Classics. This book was released on 1987 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Piers Plowman

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 1476618178
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Langland’s 14th–century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator’s quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity, alongside Falsehood and Guile, are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world. This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book Piers Plowman

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.

Book Piers Plowman

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780192836465
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation of the B-text is provided with an Introduction and extensive Notes which place the work in its contemporary setting and offer a full interpretative commentary on the poem.

Book The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman  Text

Download or read book The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman Text written by William Langland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1924 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three parallel texts of Piers Plowman, together with Richard the Redless'.

Book An Introduction to Piers Plowman

Download or read book An Introduction to Piers Plowman written by Michael A. Calabrese and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author covers all three iterations of William Langland's Piers Plowman and discusses the various changes that occurred from one revision to the next, making this work unique in its ability to be taught alongside any version of a professor's choosing.

Book The Vision of Piers Plowman

Download or read book The Vision of Piers Plowman written by William Langland and published by Everyman. This book was released on 1995 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's dream of a better society... PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements. A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty. Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text. 'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall

Book Piers Plowman Glossary

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Langland
  • Publisher : Corinthian Press
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN : 9780527000608
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Piers Plowman Glossary written by William Langland and published by Corinthian Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: