The world of Piers Plowman /
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 pol...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English English, Middle (1100-1500) |
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[Philadelphia] :
University of Pennsylvania Press
1975.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fj03z |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Macrocosm and microcosm
- pt. II. Abuses in the church and the world
- pt. III. The voice of the preacher and the heretic
- pt. IV. Moral and miracle : the saint's life and the exemplum
- pt. V. Instruction and action
- pt. VI. Paysage moralisee
- pt. VII. This is the way the world ends.