From Lawmen to Plowmen : : Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland /

From Lawmen to Plowmen : : Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland / / Stephen Yeager.

The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016
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Yeager, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2014
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse
  • 2. Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan
  • 3. Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester: The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred
  • 4. Laȝamon's Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem
  • 5. Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition
  • 6. Documents, Dreams, and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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