Emily Steiner

Reading Piers Plowman

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lucid and comprehensive study of Piers Plowman, one of the most magnificent literary works of the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521868204
• ISBN-10: 0521868203
• Artikelnr.: 37294761

Autorenporträt

Emily Steiner is Associate Professor of English Literature and an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania. She is presently co-editor (with Rebecca Davis and Lawrence Warner) of the Yearbook of Langland Studies. She is the author of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Value
3. Community
4. Learning
5. Practice
6. Belief
7. Institutions.

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1. Introduction; 2. Value; 3. Community; 4. Learning; 5. Practice; 6. Belief; 7. Institutions.

Rezensionen

'This vigorous and ingenious reading of Piers Plowman manages in compressed compass to convey a wide range of ideas articulated by the poem, implied through its poetic strategies, and associated with late-medieval Christianity. Summing up: recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. Galloway, Choice