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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Другие авторы: Peters, Edward H., Krochalis, Jeanne
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Среднеанглийский язык
Опубликовано: [Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press 1975.
Серии:Middle Ages series.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fj03z
Оглавление:
  • 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.