This definitive and long-awaited edition of the C Version of Piers Plowman now joins the California editions of the A and B Versions to complete the set of Piers Plowman texts prepared under the general editorship of George Kane. Piers Plowman is the single most important Middle English poem, with the exception of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The forty-eight extant manuscripts of the poem are classified in three main versions: A, the earliest, written about 1362; B, a longer revision, written about 1378; and C, the most finished and public form, written about 1394. The basis of this edition is the text in Huntingon Library MS 143, corrected and restored from the evidence of all known manuscripts of the C tradition to that of the first fair copy of the poet's revision materials. The correction and restoration are described in an extensive introduction, and there is a full apparatus of variant readings. Two appendices cover excluded lines and passages and the Ilchester Prologue.
Piers Plowman: The C version; Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best; an edition in the form of...
Piers Plowman B Version
A [ nd ] -nameliche - an - ydel - pe - name - of - god - almizt ; Þanne shalt pou come be a croft , ac come pou nouzt pereinne ; Þ [ e ] croft hattip coueite - nouzt - menis - catel - ne - here - wyues , Ne - none - of - here ...
Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.
Presents a translation of the poet's third version of the text
Piers Plowman: The B version; Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best, edited by G. Kane and E....
"This is a complete Concordance to the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman in the Athlone editions.
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L carefully stops short of charging that the Jews knew that Jesus was God when they killed him, a charge that Jeremy Cohen and others have shown “became widespread in Western Europe in the thirteenth century” (Cohen 1983:2; ...