TY  - GEN
T1  - The world of Piers Plowman
T2  - Middle Ages series.
A2  - Peters, Edward H.
A2  - Krochalis, Jeanne
LA  - English
LA  - English, Middle (1100-1500)
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 1975
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn794702273
AB  - Next to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, William Langland's Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland's work, more socially concerned and critical than Chaucer's, reflected an age of religious controversy, social upheaval, and political unrest. The World of Piers Plowman puts the reader in touch with the sources that helped shape Langland's somber vision. The representative documents included in this book, often cited in connection with the poem yet difficult to come by, disclose the background of Piers Plowman in social and economic history as well as folklore, art, theology, homilies, religious tractates, and chronicles.The seven sections into which the readings are divided illustrate ideas concerning (1) the heavens, the universal Church, England, and London; (2) material and spiritual abuses; (3) the most influential literary genres of the period; (4) exempla, moral tales from hagiography, sermon literature, and tracts on moral theology; (5) types of practical instruction available to the devout layperson; (6) the multiple meanings in many literary works; and (7) the moment of death, the judgments on the soul, and the torments and rewards of the afterlife.
OP  - 265
CN  - PR2015 .W6
SN  - 9780812205787
SN  - 0812205782
SN  - 1283899167
SN  - 9781283899161
SN  - 081227699X
SN  - 0812210859
SN  - 9780812210859
SN  - 9780812276992
KW  - Langland, William, : 1330?-1400? : Piers Plowman.
KW  - Langland, William, : 1330?-1400?. : Piers Plowman.
KW  - Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
KW  - Langland, William. : Piers Plowman.
KW  - Manners and customs in literature.
KW  - English literature : Middle English, 1100-1500.
KW  - England : Social life and customs : 1066-1485.
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
KW  - Angleterre : Mœurs et coutumes : 1066-1485.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Medieval.
KW  - English literature : Middle English
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Manners and customs in literature
KW  - England
KW  - Piers Plowman (Langland)
KW  - 1066-1500
KW  - "Multi-User"
ER  -