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Author : Sarah Wood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781914049071
The first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman.
Author : William Langland,George Economou
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0812215613
"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
Author : Helen Barr
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859914194
An exploration through language of the literary, historical and social tradition of poetry inspired by Piers Plowman.
Author : John A. Alford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520908314
A Companion to Piers Plowman is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece. Until now no single volume has discussed the broad range of issues raised here, nor have previous studies drawn on such an internationally distinguished group of Langland scholars.
Author : Alastair Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886262
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 : Hoyt N. Duggan
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840944
This CD-ROM continues the ongoing collaborative project devoted to the electronic publication of the medieval and Renaissance witnesses to William Langland's Piers Plowman. The edition of the B-version manuscript known as `R' is especially important because of its status as the only reliable witness for one of the two surviving branches of the B tradition. As is usual for the series, the edited text of the manuscript is presented in four different views -- a diplomatic type-facsimile; a scribal text with indications of scribal error; a critical text with lapsus calami corrected; and an AllTags view that shows all of the editorial interventions on one screen -- along with colour facsimiles and hyper-textual linkages to enable the display of the complex relationships to other B witnesses. Robert Adams is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, Texas.
Author : C. David Benson,Lynne S. Blanchfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843841851
The B-version of 'Piers Plowman', perhaps the only version authorised by Langland, is the one most frequently read today, and the most influential form of the poem. This catalogue of the extant medieval manuscripts, now locaed in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Tokyo, and San Marino, California, offers both individual manuscript descriptions and a record of the annotations. The new and detailed codicological descriptions include information on provenance and ownership, a full list of the contents, and a description of the physical make-up and the presentation of each manuscript. The first published accounts of the various textual annotations on each manuscript (whether produced by the original scribes or later readers) provides the best record available of how 'piers plowman' was understoon by its earliest audience. Professor C. DAVID BENSON teaches in the English Department at the University of Connecticut; Dr LYNNE BLANCHFIELD is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University.
Author : Rebecca Ann Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198778400
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 : C. David Benson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271046201
"Public Piers Plowman is divided into two parts. The first is an extended essay on what Benson calls the "Langland myth." He traces the evolution of Piers scholarship and demonstrates the limitations of treating Piers as a direct expression of the poet's experience and intellectual views." "In the second part Benson offers an alternative history for the poem. Benson approaches it from a broader public context, using representative examples from vernacular writing, parish art, and civic practices. He argues that Piers reached a wide contemporary audience because, far from being an account only of the author's own life and opinions, it was securely rooted in the common culture of its time and place."--Jacket.
Author : Rebecca L. Schoff
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123361904
This volume discusses the key shift from manuscript to print culture in the history of books, taking The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Piers Plowman as models of the way in which a medieval text's unique tradition influenced its transition from manuscript to print. The forces of the Reformation era did not produce the same effect across the varied textual legacy of the Middle Ages. Every text that made the transition from manuscript to print brought with it a set of concerns, a tendency to address a particular readership in particular ways, a physical presence developed in manuscript culture, all of which might shape the pathways by which a text might arrive in print, and what it might look like when it got there. This study follows The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Piers Plowman from their circulation in manuscript to their presentation in print, in order to track how each of them survived the metamorphosis of the relationship between writers and readers as the new technology was introduced. Taken together, the three case studies demonstrate to scholars of any medieval literature the variety of possible impacts made when texts composed in manuscript culture were prepared for printing. The great force exerted by the technological and cultural developments of the English Reformation, not least the more centralized legislative regulation of the press, has long been central to the study of the history of books. This volume takes into account the ways in which individual textual traditions pushed back or accelerated the forces of early modern reform, producing their own plural reformations.
Author : Carl Kears
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781914049132
A fresh close reading of the texts of one of the four surviving major manuscripts of Old English poetry, reappraising Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 to discover some of the preoccupations of its compliers. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Junius 11 is one of the four major manuscripts of Old English poetry to survive and the only one of these to have had a planned sequence of illuminations. Junius 11 is made up of different poems - Genesis A, Genesis B, Exodus, Daniel and Christ and Satan - compiled to resemble a long narrative that represents salvation history from its violent origins to its Last Days. While the poems draw inspiration from biblical, apocryphal and commentary traditions, they combine in the manuscript to create powerful effects that can also be understood through an appreciation of the distinctive craft and complexity of early medieval vernacular verse. But can the language of the poetry within the manuscript tell us anything about the aims of the Junius 11 project, or the preoccupations of its compilers? This book approaches Junius 11 as an ambitious poetic endeavour that was designed to offer counsel through the medium of Old English verbal art. Tracing thematic language across and between the poems, and offering close readings of them in their manuscript context, MS Junius 11 and its Poetry argues that it is early medieval political ideas represented by the Old English words ræd (good counsel) and unræd (ill counsel) that emerge as the key components underlying the central conflicts of the history of humankind the makers of this manuscript sought to create. The poems themselves, by giving us many examples of rulers and leaders falling to ruin, have the potential to offer their own ræd to those who may have found themselves in relatable positions. But Junius 11 demands work for such gifts. Its poems generate impressions cumulatively and collectively, offering instruction to those who might build connections across pages, demanding audiences become attentive and active readers so that they might find solace and advice in a world that moves towards destruction.
Author : Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman,Nicolette Zeeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521856102
This ambitious study links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Zeeman's radical approach opens up a completely fresh reading of Piers Plowman and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.
Author : Jennifer N. Brown,Nicole R. Rice
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903153963
Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.
Author : George Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520330160
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author : Stephen Yeager
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442643475