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.
But there is a wider sense of ' sacramental , that developed by David Jones in his essay ' Art and Sacrament , which is highly illuminating for Piers Plowman . Jones sees all art as a ' sign - making ( or ' sacramental ) activity based ...
Presents a translation of the poet's third version of the text
325 330 335 340 345 350 355 360 The friar heard this and hurried in haste To a lord for a letter giving leave to function As a priest in his parish, which he presently brought Boldly to a bishop, begging for a license To hear ...
Rebecca Davis explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision.
For this new and fully updated edition, Langland scholar Derek Pearsall has completely revised the C-text (part of an A-B-C textual chronology), adding helpful side-glosses for the student reader, revising and updating the explanatory notes ...
Piers Plowman
93 In his Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England, Haren follows William A. Pantin, who long ago identified the Memoriale presbiterorum as one of a cluster of penitential works underlying Piers Plowman's vision of reform.
16 Langland's version of John 13:21 and of Matthew 26 : 21-5 ( whence also line 145 ) . 17 Langland's expansion of Matthew 26 : 48-50 . 18 Does not belong in this context at all : it is Matthew 18 : 7 . 19 John 18 : 8-9 .
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Robertson, Elizabeth. “Measurement and the 'Feminine' in Piers Plowman: A Response to Recent Studies of Langland and Gender,” in [William Langland's “Piers Plowman ”: A Book of Essays, ed. Kathleen Hewett—Smith. New York, 2001, pp.