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Books on: Piers Plowman

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Reading Piers Plowman and The Pilgrim's Progress: Reception and the Protestant Reader

Book by Barbara A. Johnson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Bunyan, John--1628-1688--Pilgrim's Progress, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Piers The Plowman, Protestantism And Literature, Protestants--England--Books And Reading, Reader-Response Criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Reading Piers Plowman And The Pilgrim's Progress Reception...Data Johnson, Barbara A. Reading Piers Plowman and The pilgrim's progress : reception...Lollards, Reformers, and the Figure of Piers Plowman 63...
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The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century

Book by F. R. H. Du Boulay; D.S. Brewer, 1991

Subjects:

England--Civilization--1066-1485, England--In Literature, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Knowledge--England, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Piers The Plowman, Literature And Society--England--History--To 1500

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Professor Du Boulay's book is both a highly readable introduction to Langland's work and an original contribution to the history of religious thought. It rejects the view that Langland was primarily a political radical or a prophet of doom and sees him as both a great imaginative poet and a preacher ...
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Professor Du Boulay's book is both a highly readable introduction to Langland's work and an original contribution to the history of religious thought. It rejects the view that Langland was primarily a political radical or a prophet of doom and sees him as both a great imaginative poet and a preacher of Christian charity. Writing in an age of intellectual subtlety and shifting social frontiers, Langland expressed deep anxieties yet offered to his fellow-Christians a way of interior repentance and practical love, guided by the enigmatic figure of Piers.
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Social Life in the Days of Piers Plowman

Book by D. Chadwick; Cambridge University Press, 1922

Subjects:

England--Social Life And Customs--1066-1485, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Knowledge--Manners And Customs, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Piers The Plowman, Manners And Customs In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...SOCIAL LIFE IN THE DAYS OF PIERS PLOWMAN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C...RESERVED SOCIAL LIFE IN THE DAYS OF PIERS PLOWMAN BY D. CHADWICK CAMBRIDGE...of social life recorded in Piers Plowman and is based on the three parallel...
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Piers Plowman: An Essay in Criticism

Book by John Lawlor; Edward Arnold, 1962

Subjects:

Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Piers The Plowman

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Piers Plowman AN ESSAY IN CRITICISM Piers Plowman AN ESSAY IN CRITICISM BY JOHN LAWLOR LONDON...Appendix: Some problems of a true text of Piers Plowman 323 Index 331...
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Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman

Book by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Denise L. Despres; University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Subjects:

Authors And Readers--Ireland--History--To 1500, Bodleian Library--Manuscript--Douce 104, Book Industries And Trade--Ireland--History--To 1500, Books And Reading--Ireland--History--To 1500, Christian Poetry, English (Middle)--Illustrations, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Medieval--Ireland, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Appreciation--Ireland, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Manuscripts, Langland, William--1330?-1400?--Piers The Plowman--Illustrations

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman VOLUME 14 Edited by Marilynn...Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise...book production in the Douce Piers Plowman / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise...

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Journal Articles on: Piers Plowman

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A Scribal Translation of Piers Plowman

Journal article by Merja Black; Medium Aevum, Vol. 67, 1998

Subjects:

English language--Middle English, 1100-1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Piers Plowman (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A SCRIBAL TRANSLATION OF PIERS PLOWMAN. by MERJA BLACK...textually `inferior manuscripts of Piers Plowman, found in British Library, MS...core usage of the manuscripts of Piers Plowman, which may be assumed to reflect...
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Grace Abounding: Justification in Passau 16 of 'Piers Plowman

Journal article by Paul Sheneman; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 34, 1998

Subjects:

Grace (Theology)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Justification--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Langland, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Piers Plowman (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...justification in Passau 16 of Piers Plowman. by Paul Sheneman Love, personified in Piers Plowman, presents the reader with a contradiction...acceptation.... Evidence from Piers Plowman to support this assertion is cogent...
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C. David Benson, Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture

Journal article by Nicolette Zeeman; Medium Aevum, Vol. 75, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

C. David Benson, Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval...Zeeman C. David Benson, Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval...personality of the poet; and to situate Piers Plowman (which Benson rightly describes...
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Nicolette Zeeman, 'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

Journal article by Lawrence Warner; Medium Aevum, Vol. 76, 2007

Subjects:

'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Nicolette Zeeman, Piers Plowman and the Medieval Discourse of Desire...Lawrence Warner Nicolette Zeeman, Piers Plowman and the Medieval Discourse of Desire...Nicolette Zeeman identifies and analyses Piers Plowmans proposal that there are forces at...
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Anne M. Scott, Piers Plowman and the Poor

Journal article by Helen Barr; Medium Aevum, Vol. 74, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Piers Plowman and the Poor (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Anne M. Scott, Piers Plowman and the Poor. by Helen Barr Anne M. Scott, Piers Plowman and the Poor (Dublin: Four Courts...challenges those critics who argue that in Piers Plowman Langland abandons wrestling with the...

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Magazine Articles on: Piers Plowman

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How Urban Was Medieval England?

Magazine article by Christopher Dyer; History Today, Vol. 47, January 1997

Subjects:

Cities and towns--History, Middle Ages--History, United Kingdom--History, 1066-1485 (Medieval period), Urban anthropology--United Kingdom, Urban archaeology--United Kingdom

Collections: History, Entire Library

...is imprinted in our minds by literary images like Piers Plowman sowing his half acre, and Robin Hood roaming in the...common sense were to be found in the countryside. Piers Plowmans creator, William Langland, lived in London, and his...
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Edmund Spenser: The Boyhood of a Poet

Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, February 1994

Subjects:

Poets--Biography, Spenser, Edmund--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...the ale houses, descended from the tavern-haunters of Piers Plowman: scavengers, rat-catchers, ditchers, horse-dealers...cit. 29. 11. Judson, op cit. 13; William Langland. Piers Plowman (ed. Walter Skeat), Oxford, 1923; Passus V, 315-32...
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The Roman Ideal of Rural Retirement in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England

Magazine article by A.D. Harvey; Contemporary Review, Vol. 288, Autumn 2006

Subjects:

Retirement communities--Forecasts and trends, Rural areas--Forecasts and trends, Sparsely populated areas--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Entire Library

...in the fourteenth century, in the difference in style and language between Chaucers Canterbury Tales and Langlands Piers Plowman. Later one can see it in the growing gap after 1600, and especially after Shakespeares retirement in 1610, between...
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The Dead beneath Our Feet: Nicholas Orme Considers How the Crowded Cities of Medieval England Dealt with the Death and Burial of Their Citizens

Magazine article by Nicholas Orme; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004

Subjects:

Burial laws--History, Cathedrals--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the cash for the prayers had run out. The fourteenth-century poet William Langland meditated on death in his poem Piers Plowman. The grave equates us all, he argued. For in charnel at church churls are hard to know. Or a knight from a knave...
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The Ups and Downs of Honor

Magazine article by Eugen Weber; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Winter 1999

Subjects:

Heroes--Social aspects, Honor--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...attract notice among the lower orders. But ambition takes no account of birth, and as early as the fourteenth century, Piers Plowman sneered that "soap-sellers and their sons for silver are made knights." This, of course, continued to be true: witness...

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Newspaper Articles on: Piers Plowman

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Robin Hood

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for those historians hoping to discover the true identity of the famed fugitive. First mentioned in a 1377 edition of Piers Plowman, Robin Hood is also the hero of the ballad A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, which dates from 1510. The ballad runs to...
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Pastimes: Town in the Shadow of the Hills

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 11, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...extensively quarried for road stone. Cleobury Mortimer is famed as the birthplace in 1332 of the poet William Langland whose Piers Plowman dreamed his dreams in bitter verses about the contemporary scene in 14th century England. There is a lovely east window...
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Property: WHY MOVE TO... Cleobury Mortimer? MORT the Merrier in Cleobury

Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), April 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of Mortimer, who settled here in 1086. Its also believed to be the birthplace of William Langland, the author of Piers Plowman, in the 14th century. Theres a commemorative window in the local church in his honour. Many people think of Cleobury...
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Will the Real Robin Hood Please Take a Bow; No Historical Legend Has Inspired So Many Myths as ROBIN HOOD. as the Outlaw Rides through the Glen Yet Again in a New Prime Time BBC Series, NIGEL JONES Peers among the Trees of Sherwood to Locate the Real Robin

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 7, 2006

Subjects:

Television programs

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...at all. So lets go back to the beginning. The name of Robin Hood first appears in writing in William Langlands poem Piers Plowman, around 1377, when the poet says he may not know his paternoster prayer, but he does know a rhyme for Robin Hood. Its...
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Charlie's Avenging Angels

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 14, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...across the rural occupations of huckster and yeoman farmer. What are these? THE term yeomen was first noted in 1362 in Piers Plowman and probably meant young men (Campbell, The English Yeoman,). Yeomen have been acclaimed as the backbone of middle...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Piers Plowman

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Piers Plowman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PIERS PLOWMAN see Langland, William . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Langland, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1332 c.1400, putative author of Piers Plowman. He was born probably at Ledbury...copying documents. His great work, Piers Plowman, or, more precisely, The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, is an allegorical poem in unrhymed...
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Robin Hood

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of at least 30 Middle English ballads and of many later stories and plays. He is mentioned in such diverse works as Piers Plowman, Ivanhoe (1820) by Sir Walter Scott, and The Once and Future King (1958) by T. H. White...
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Skeat, Walter William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...led the way in the study of English place names. Among the many works he edited are Lancelot of the Laik (1865), Piers Plowman (1867 85), John Barbours The Bruce (4 parts, 1870 89), AElfrics Lives of Saints (2 parts, 1881 1900), and a seven-volume...
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Alliteration

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...dormant for centuries, an alliterative revival occurred in England in the mid-1400s, as evidenced by such masterworks as Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (see Langland, William ; Pearl, The ). Shakespeare parodies alliteration...

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