Justice And Mercy In Piers Plowman

Author : Myra Stokes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429589898

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Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman by Myra Stokes Pdf

Originally published by 1984 Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman provides a clear and informative introduction to the complexities of Langland’s Piers Plowman. It identifies Langland’s major concerns and shows in detail, passus by passus, how these are developed by him in the first part of the poem – the Visio. It offers a close reading of the text and draws parallels where relevant with other medieval writings. There is a final brief chapter on the Vita which outlines the chief ways in which the themes of justice, mercy and law that have been followed through Visio continue to be of major importance in the rest of the poem. By concentrating on the philosophical core of the work, the climate of thought in which Langland wrote and the thematic integrity of the poem as a whole, the author makes a difficult, but unique and fascinating poem more accessible.

Author : Rebecca Ann Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198778400

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Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature by Rebecca Ann Davis Pdf

Rebecca Davis explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. By contextualizing Langland's poetics of kynde (or nature) within contemporary literary, philosophical, legal, and theological discourses, she opens up many of the poem's most perplexing interpretative problems.

Author : Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135652821

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William Langland's Piers Plowman by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith Pdf

This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology.

Author : Sarah Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191636486

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Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman by Sarah Wood Pdf

Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Langland's Piers Plowman. Previous critical accounts of Conscience either focus on discussions of the faculty conscience in scholastic discourse, or eschew personification allegory as a useful category in order to argue for the figure's development or education as a character during the poem. But Conscience only appears to develop as he is re-presented, in the course of Piers Plowman, within a series of different literary modes. And he changes not only during the composition of the various episodes in different modes that make up the single version, but also during the composition of the poem as a series of three different versions. The versions of Piers Plowman form, this book argues, a single continuous narrative or argument, in which revisions to Conscience's role in one version are predicated upon his cumulative 'experiences' in the earlier versions. Drawing on a variety of materials in both Middle English and Latin, Sarah Wood illustrates the wide range of contemporary discourses Langland employed as he composed Conscience in the three versions of the poem. By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts, Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the versions of Piers Plowman have customarily been presented and read in parallel-text formats, Wood shows that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if the three versions are read in sequence.

Author : David Aers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915611

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Faith, Ethics, and Church by David Aers Pdf

Examination of key texts - Chaucer to Wyclif - sheds new light on medieval spirituality. The relationship between versions of the late medieval Church, faith, ethics and the lay powers, as explored in a range of late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century texts written in England, is the subject of this book. It argues that they disclose strikingly diverse models of Christian discipleship, and examines the sources and consequences of such differences. Issues investigated include whether the Church could shape modern communities and individualidentities, and how it could combine its status as a major landlord and trader without being assimilated by the various networks of earthly power and profit. The book begins with Chaucer's treatment of received versions of faith,ethics and the Church, and moves via St Thomas, Ockham, Nicholas Love, Gower, the Gawain-poet and Langland (who pursues the issues with particular intensity and focus) to Wyclif's construal of Christian discipleship in relation to his projected reform of the Church. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book will be of interest to all those studying late medieval Christianity and literature. DAVID AERS is James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Historical Theology at Duke University.

Author : Margaret E. Goldsmith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859910776

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The Figure of Piers Plowman by Margaret E. Goldsmith Pdf

By examining the various versions of the poem, Dr Goldsmith shows that the enigmatic Piers Plowman is a consistent figure despite many apparent contradictions.

Author : Andrew Cole,Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107009189

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The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman by Andrew Cole,Andrew Galloway Pdf

A comprehensive study of the fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring work with groundbreaking new research.

Author : Charlotte Clutterbuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351940344

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Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry by Charlotte Clutterbuck Pdf

Engaging with four English poems or groups of poems-the anonymous medieval Crucifixion lyrics; William Langland's Piers Plowman, John Donne's Divine Poems, and John Milton's Paradise Lost-this book examines the nature of poetic encounter with God. At the same time, the author makes original contributions to the discussion of critical dilemmas in the study of each poem or group of poems. The main linguistic focus of this book is on the nature of dialogue with God in religious poetry, an area much neglected by grammarians and often overlooked in studies of literary style. It constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between literature and theology.

Author : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487515393

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Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages by Arvind Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1840221038

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Piers Plowman by William Langland Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490208

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This Noble Craft... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Baldwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137113818

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A Guidebook to Piers Plowman by Anna Baldwin Pdf

William Langland's poem Piers Plowman is one of the most popular and widely-studied Middle English works. This comprehensive, readable guide leads the student chronologically through the entire text and is designed to be read alongside it. Assuming no previous knowledge, readers are introduced to characters, plot and argument in way that enables them to enjoy and analyse the text for themselves. A Guidebook to 'Piers Plowman': - Clarifies and explores Langland's thinking - Contextualises the religious, political and social issues he raises - Details the genres and sources the poet uses - Employs up-to-date bibliographical knowledge to offer alternative critical interpretations and suggest ways of relating these to the poet's key concerns - Explains Langland's historical, theological and psychological assumptions in helpful inserted text boxes - Features illustrations and suggestions for further reading Concise and approachable, this is an invaluable tool to help students appreciate the originality and modernity of Langland's poetry.

Author : Alastair Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886262

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Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman by Alastair Bennett Pdf

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.

Author : Janet Coleman
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Piers Plowman and the Moderni by Janet Coleman Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Fowler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501724169

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Literary Character by Elizabeth Fowler Pdf

Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models—such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator—originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture.Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading.Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes. According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires.