Lawrence Warner (King's College London)

The Myth of Piers Plowman

Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

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Produktbeschreibung

A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Also available as Open Access.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781107043633
• ISBN-10: 1107043638
• Artikelnr.: 40546726

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Warner is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English at King's College London and Director of the International Piers Plowman Society. His book, The Lost History of 'Piers Plowman': The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work (2011), received Honorable Mention for the 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph Ritson
1. William and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne
2. Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe Castle, and the London Riot of 1384
3. Latinitas et Communitas Visionis Willielmi de Longlond
4. Quod Piers Plowman: non-Reformist prophecy, c.1520-55
5. Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS (Huntington Hm 114), 1709-66
6. William Dupré, Fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the Age of Forgery
Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman
Bibliography.