By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland’s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.
By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland’s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse Chapter 2 Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan Chapter 3 Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester:The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred Chapter 4 Läamon’s Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem Chapter 5 Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition Chapter 6 Documents, Dreams and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger Conclusion Bibliography
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse Chapter 2 Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan Chapter 3 Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester:The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred Chapter 4 Läamon’s Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem Chapter 5 Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition Chapter 6 Documents, Dreams and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger Conclusion Bibliography
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