ABSTRACT
As Gillian Rudd points out, God in Piers Plowman cannot IDC fixed in one place,' and each holy place identified in the poem may be called 'inadequate and approximate' in the sense that it is not the only holy place. Yet this 'displacement' (203) of one holy place by another throughout the poem has a paradoxical effect. If it makes the reader realize that limited understandings of God are 'no longer secure' because of 'a plurality of meanings' (203),3 it also suggests that God is in many places; it points to a mystery of omnipresence.4
