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William Langland Revisited
(Twayne's English Author Series, No 537)
by Joseph S. Wittig
Twayne Pub, August 1,1997
US $32.00
"Wittig's clear and accesible style makes this revisit
an excellent guide for students of Medieval literature
who are encountering Langland and Piers Plowman
for the first time. This comprehensive volume explains
the many elements and contexts of one of the most
complex works of a complex era. Textual, scholarly,
and critical, this introduction is written by one of the
foremost experts on Langland: the scholar selected
to prepare the concordance to the three extant versions
of Piers Plowman." —the Publisher
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Piers Plowman
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Piers Plowman : An Edition of the C-Text
by Langland, Derek Pearsall (Editor)
US $21.95
Paperback
Univ of Exeter Press; December 1995
"This edition is the first complete edition of
the C-text of "Piers Plowman" since that of
Skeat (1886). It has been prepared with
recognition of the complexity of the work,
and also of its significance as a record of
social and religious conflict and crises in
a turbulent age." —The Publisher
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A Companion to Piers Plowman
by John A. Alford (Editor)
US $18.95
Paperback Reprint edition
Univ California Press; April 1990
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested
in a serious consideration of Piers Plowman and also
for anyone planning critical or scholarly investigation
on it (in other words, for all students of the poem, all
readers of the poem, and all scholars of the poem."
—Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
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Managing Language in Piers Plowman
(Piers Plowman Studies, No 9)
by Gillian Rudd
Boydell & Brewer, March 1994
US $72.00
"Gillian Rudd's study of language, learning, and the forms
of knowledge and authority in Piers and how they are all
intimately related, are intricately questioning one another,
and are never quite resolved." (Gregory Roper)
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Piers Plowman and the Problem of Belief
by Britton J. Harwood
US $23.00
Paperback
Univ of Toronto Press; January 1995
"Harwood (English, Miami U.) considers William
Langland's (1330?-1400?) great Middle English
poem, Piers Plowman as an expression of a crisis
of faith—as the first Middle English poem to
have been motivated by the deterioration in theological
and philosophical foundations experienced by the
14th-century writer, as argued by Muscatine and
Middleton." —Book News, Inc.
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Radical Nostalgia in the Age of Piers Plowman :
Economics, Apocalypticism, and Discontent
(Studies in
the Humanities, Vol. 48.)
by Justine Rydzeski
US $42.95
Hardcover
Peter Lang Publishing; May 1999
"After exploring the growing dissonance between
religious tradition and economic language, this
study examines expressions of social discontent,
including the actions and communications of the
1381 rebels, William Langland’s moral objections
in Piers Plowman, and the complaints central to
the other "plowman poems" of Langland’s imitators.
This study argues that Langland and the 1381 rebels
exhibit "radical nostalgia"—a longing for agrarian
Christian roots that projects the traditional social
structure of the past onto a renewed, if not millennial,
society." —the Publisher
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Songes of Rechelesnesse : Langland and the Franciscans
(Studies in Medieval and Early Modern
Civilization)
by Lawrence M. Clopper
US $54.50
Hardcover
Univ of Michigan Press; January 1998
"The period in which Langland wrote was volatile
and full of colorful and contentious people: Edward III,
Richard II, Chaucer, and Wyclif - and Langland. In
"Songes of Rechelesnesse," Lawrence M. Clopper
presents the voice of this powerful disputant who lived
in a period marked by dissent and discontent. This
book will be of interest to literary scholars, historians of
the late Middle Ages, and scholars in religious studies."
—Amazon.com
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Written Work : Langland, Labor, and Authorship
(Middle Ages Series)
by Steven Justice (Editor), Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Editor)
US $45.00
Hardcover
University of Pennsylvania Press; September 1997
"The five original historicist studies collected here
are less concerned with searching for Langland's
identity in medieval records than with examining
the marks, even scars, left on him by the history
he touched.... Each of the chapters unfolds from
Langland's apologia, the extraordinary autobiographical
passage unique to the last of the three distinct
versions of Piers Plowman that have come down
to us." —The Publisher
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The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman : The B-Version
by C. David Benson (Editor), Lynne S. Blanchfield (Editor)
US $108.00
Hardcover
Ds Brewer; January 1998
"This catalogue of the 18 extant manuscripts, now
located in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Tokyo and
California, offers both individual manuscript descriptions
and a record of the annotations."
—Amazon.co.uk
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The England of 'Piers Plowman' :
William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century
by F.R.H. Duboulay
US $58.00
Hardcover
Boydell & Brewer; March 1991
"This book aims to broaden the traditional, literary,
view of Langland and his poem in a study of him and
his world. The author rejects the view that Langland
was primarily a political radical or a prophet of doom
and sees him as simultaneously an imaginative poet
and a preacher of Christian charity.... The book is
intended both as an intrduction to Langland's work and
as a contribution to the history of religious thought. "
—Amazon.com
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Imaginative Prophecy in the B-Text of Piers Plowman
(Piers Plowman Studies, No 8)
by Ernest Kaulbach
US $63.00
Hardcover
Ds Brewer; December 1992
"[E]xplores the psychology underlying Passus 8-20
of "Piers Plowman", and by doing so aims to remedy
any gaps which may remain in the understanding of
Langland's poem, despite previous single articles on
separate psychological personifications."
—Amazon.co.uk
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Kindly Similitude : Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman
(Piers Plowman Studies, No 11)
by M. Teresa Tavormina
US $81.00
Hardcover
Ds Brewer; July 1995
"[O]ffers a detailed reading of the many passages
in "Piers Plowman" A,B, and C concerned with
marriage and family, and places these passages
within the frameworks of contemporary social history,
law, theology, exegesis and literature."
—Amazon.co.uk
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