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Books on Langland and Piers Plowman
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William Langland Revisited
(Twayne's English Author Series, No 537)
by Joseph S. Wittig
Twayne Pub, 1997
"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
(Norton Critical Editions)
by William Langland, E. Talbot Donaldson (Tr)
W W Norton & Co, 2006
This Norton Critical Edition uses the alliterative verse translation of E. Talbot Donaldson with excellent annotations. Selections are also included in the Middle English original for comparison. This edition also includes sources and backgrounds for the poem, 20 critical essays by leading Medievalists, as well as a glossary and a select bibliography. Simply, the best.
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Piers Plowman: An Edition of the C-Text
by Langland, Derek Pearsall (Editor)
Univ of Exeter Press; 2008
"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 Guidebook to Piers Plowman
by Anna Baldwin
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
"This comprehensive, readable guide works chronologically through the entire text of Piers Plowman and is designed to be read alongside it. Assuming no previous knowledge, it equips readers to enjoy and analyse the text for themselves by clarifying Langland's thinking, contextualising the religious, political and social issues raised, detailing the genres and sources he is using, and offering alternative critical interpretations at key points." The Publisher.
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Piers Plowman: An Introduction
by James Simpson
Second Revised Edition
University of Exeter Press, 2007
"Simpson's introductory study is based on the B-text, the most widely read and studied of the three versions of Piers Plowman. Its structure follows that of the poem's eight visions and its introduction situates the poem in literary and political history. This fully revised edition takes account of scholarship over the last 15 years and includes a revised and updated bibliography." The Publisher.
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A Companion to Piers Plowman
by John A. Alford (Editor)
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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Piers Plowman and the Medieval Discourse of Desire
by Nicolette Zeeman
Cambridge University Press, 2009
"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."
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Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture
by C. David Benson
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005
"Benson tackles the difficult and vital question of Piers Plowman's engagement with its history by getting down to the basics of the text, the circumstances of its production, and the real world from which it emerged. His historical re-envisioning of Piers is exactly what Langland's poem, at this stage in its career, needs. Public Piers Plowman is a major achievement."
Derek Pearsall, Harvard University
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Managing Language in Piers Plowman
(Piers Plowman Studies, No 9)
by Gillian Rudd
Boydell & Brewer, March 1994
"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
Univ of Toronto Press; January 1995
"Harwood (English, Miami U.) considers William
Langland's great Middle English
poem, Piers Plowman, as an expression of a crisis
of faithas 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
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
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.... 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."
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Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship (Middle Ages Series)
by Steven Justice (Ed), Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Ed)
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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Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, No 28)
by Charlotte Brewer
Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1996
"The 50-plus extant manuscripts of Piers Plowman
have always posed a puzzle to editors and readers.
This work is an account of the editions of the poem
which have appeared since 1550, when it was first
published by the Protestant reformer Robert Crowley."
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The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century
by F.R.H. Duboulay
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."
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Imaginative Prophecy in the B-Text of Piers Plowman (Piers Plowman Studies, No 8)
by Ernest Kaulbach
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."
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Kindly Similitude: Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman (Piers Plowman Studies, No 11)
by M. Teresa Tavormina
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."
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Nature and Salvation in Piers Plowman (Piers Plowman Studies, 6)
by Hugh White
Hardcover
DS Brewer; June 1988
"The idea of the natural... develops over the course of [Langland's] poem under the kynde wit and kynde knowing, his presentation of Kynde as God, and his understanding of what is involved in being kynde...enabling profound meditation on the roles of man and God in respect of man's salvation and, more broadly, on the relationship between God and man."
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'Piers Plowman' and the New Anticlericalism (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, No 4)
by Wendy Scase
Hardcover
Cambridge Univ Press; September 1989
"Dr Scase describes and analyses important but little-known medieval polemics and satires, tracing the emergence of a distinctive 'new anticlericalism' which entailed nothing less than the making of a new anticlerical literature.... Always referring closely to the contemporary controversies, and with constant attention to the detail of the text, she reveals the significance of the poem's anticlericalism."
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