Nicolette Zeeman

'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A radical re-reading of Piers Plowman that sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521122986
• ISBN-10: 0521122988
• Artikelnr.: 26985753

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on the text
Introduction: trial by desire
1. 'Painful lettings': sin, temptation and tribulation
2. Powers of knowledge and desire
3. Studying the word
4. The word heard and written
5. Seeing and suffering in nature
6. Clergie and kynde in Piers Plowman
7. Imaginatyf and the feast of Pacience
8. A poem shaped by knowing and wanting
Bibliography
Index.