The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" : : The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work / / Lawrence Warner.
Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circula...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) :; 3 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Piers Plowman Before 1400: Evidence for the Earliest Circulation of A, B, and C
- Chapter 2. Scribal Conflation, Convergent Variation, and the Invention of Piers Plowman B
- Chapter 3. The Poison of Possession: B Passus 15
- Chapter 4. The Ending, and End, of Piers Plowman B
- Conclusion. Lollars, Friars, and Fyndynges: C Passus 9 and the Creation of Piers Plowman
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments