The World of "Piers Plowman" / / Edward Peters, Jeanne Krochalis.
Next to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, William Langland's Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland's work, more socially concerned and critical than Chaucer's, reflected an age of religious controversy, social upheaval, and pol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©1976 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: Macrocosm and Microcosm
- PART II: Abuses in the Church and the World
- PART III: The Voice of the Preacher and the Heretic
- PART IV: Moral and Miracle: The Saint's Life and the Exemplum
- PART V: Instruction and Action
- PART VI: Paysage Moralisee
- PART VII: This is the Way the World Ends