Piers Plowman

  • Piers Plowman: A Modern Verse Translation
    By William Langland

    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 ...

  • Piers Plowman: With Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Pearl and Sir Orfeo (anon.)
    By William Langland, J. A. Burrow

    It paints a vivid picture of everyday life in the 14th century with a vigour and detail which anticipates The Canterbury Tales.

  • Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-text
    By William Langland

    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 ...

  • Piers Plowman: The A Version
    By William Langland

    Barney, Stephen A. The Penn Commentary on “Piers Plowman.” Vol. 5. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Galloway, Andrew. The Penn Commentary on “Piers Plowman.” Vol. 1. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, ...

  • Piers Plowman
    By William Langland

    Piers Plowman

  • Piers Plowman: A Modern Verse Translation
    By William Langland

    This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

  • Piers Plowman: Concordance
    By Joseph S. Wittig

    "This is a complete Concordance to the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman in the Athlone editions.

  • Piers Plowman: Prologue and Passus 1 - 7
    By William Langland

    Piers Plowman: Prologue and Passus 1 - 7

  • Piers Plowman
    By William William Langland

    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.

  • Piers Plowman: the prologue and passus I-VII of the B text as found in Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 581
    By William Langland, Jack A. W. Bennett

    ' The poem that resulted from this curious paradox presents one of the great enigmas of all English poetry, as well as one of the major works of the Middle Ages.

  • Piers Plowman: The A-Text
    By William Langland, David C. Fowler, Francis Covella

    Piers Plowman: The A-Text

  • Piers Plowman
    By William Langland

    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 .

  • Piers Plowman: The Evidence for Authorship
    By George Kane

    The major edition of the three versions of Piers Plowman which the Athlone Press is in the process of publishing and of which Professor Kane is the general editor was not planned to include discussion of the authorship of the poem.

  • Piers Plowman: The C version; Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best; an edition in the form of...
    By William Langland

    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
    By William Langland, George Kane

    Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity tumble out of the text alongside Falsehood and Guile, and are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors.

  • Piers Plowman: The A Version
    By William Langland

    Whiting, Bartlett Jere, and Helen Wescott Whiting. Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases: From English Writings Mainly before 1500. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. Trigg, Stephanie, ed. Wynnere and Wastoure.

  • Piers Plowman: An Introduction
    By James Simpson

    Simpson's introductory study is based on the B-text, the most widely read and studied of the three versions of Piers Plowman. Aimed at undergraduates, it is the only truly introductory book on the text in existence.

  • Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction
    By John A. Alford

    Scholars have long believed that William Langland had a technical knowledge of the law. Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction is the first attempt to confirm that belief through...

  • Piers Plowman: Introduction, textual notes, commentary, bibliography, and indexical glossary
    By William Langland

    Piers Plowman: Introduction, textual notes, commentary, bibliography, and indexical glossary

  • Piers Plowman
    By William Langland, Derek Albert Pearsall

    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 ...