ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1969 Piers Plowman is a collection of 12 original essays by leading academics on Piers Plowman. As a combined volume, this collection forms a substantial introduction and a comprehensive account of the poem, its background and textual problems. The book’s essays reflect the diversity, and vigour of criticism in the field of medieval literature and opens new perspectives in the study of one of its finest poems.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|26 pages

The Tearing of the Pardon

chapter 6|37 pages

Piers and the Image of God in Man

chapter 9|19 pages

The Langland Country

chapter 10|34 pages

Charity in Piers Plowman

chapter 11|31 pages

Satire in Piers Plowman

chapter 12|15 pages

Chaucer’s Contemporary