Justice And Mercy In Piers Plowman

Author : Myra Stokes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429589891
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman written by Myra Stokes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by 1984 Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman provides a clear and informative introduction to the complexities of Langland’s Piers Plowman. It identifies Langland’s major concerns and shows in detail, passus by passus, how these are developed by him in the first part of the poem – the Visio. It offers a close reading of the text and draws parallels where relevant with other medieval writings. There is a final brief chapter on the Vita which outlines the chief ways in which the themes of justice, mercy and law that have been followed through Visio continue to be of major importance in the rest of the poem. By concentrating on the philosophical core of the work, the climate of thought in which Langland wrote and the thematic integrity of the poem as a whole, the author makes a difficult, but unique and fascinating poem more accessible.

Author : Rebecca Ann Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198778406
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature written by Rebecca Ann Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Davis explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. By contextualizing Langland's poetics of kynde (or nature) within contemporary literary, philosophical, legal, and theological discourses, she opens up many of the poem's most perplexing interpretative problems.

Author : Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135652821
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Langland's Piers Plowman written by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology.

Author : Margaret E. Goldsmith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859910774
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Figure of Piers Plowman written by Margaret E. Goldsmith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1981 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the various versions of the poem, Dr Goldsmith shows that the enigmatic Piers Plowman is a consistent figure despite many apparent contradictions.

Author : Sarah Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191636487
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman written by Sarah Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Langland's Piers Plowman. Previous critical accounts of Conscience either focus on discussions of the faculty conscience in scholastic discourse, or eschew personification allegory as a useful category in order to argue for the figure's development or education as a character during the poem. But Conscience only appears to develop as he is re-presented, in the course of Piers Plowman, within a series of different literary modes. And he changes not only during the composition of the various episodes in different modes that make up the single version, but also during the composition of the poem as a series of three different versions. The versions of Piers Plowman form, this book argues, a single continuous narrative or argument, in which revisions to Conscience's role in one version are predicated upon his cumulative 'experiences' in the earlier versions. Drawing on a variety of materials in both Middle English and Latin, Sarah Wood illustrates the wide range of contemporary discourses Langland employed as he composed Conscience in the three versions of the poem. By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts, Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the versions of Piers Plowman have customarily been presented and read in parallel-text formats, Wood shows that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if the three versions are read in sequence.

Author : David Aers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915618
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith, Ethics, and Church written by David Aers and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of key texts - Chaucer to Wyclif - sheds new light on medieval spirituality. The relationship between versions of the late medieval Church, faith, ethics and the lay powers, as explored in a range of late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century texts written in England, is the subject of this book. It argues that they disclose strikingly diverse models of Christian discipleship, and examines the sources and consequences of such differences. Issues investigated include whether the Church could shape modern communities and individualidentities, and how it could combine its status as a major landlord and trader without being assimilated by the various networks of earthly power and profit. The book begins with Chaucer's treatment of received versions of faith,ethics and the Church, and moves via St Thomas, Ockham, Nicholas Love, Gower, the Gawain-poet and Langland (who pursues the issues with particular intensity and focus) to Wyclif's construal of Christian discipleship in relation to his projected reform of the Church. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book will be of interest to all those studying late medieval Christianity and literature. DAVID AERS is James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Historical Theology at Duke University.

Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009189
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman written by Andrew Cole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring work with groundbreaking new research.

Author : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487515391
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages written by Arvind Thomas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England’s great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman’s preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions’ representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem’s narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland’s mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today’s medievalists.

Author : Charlotte Clutterbuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351940341
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters with God in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry written by Charlotte Clutterbuck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with four English poems or groups of poems-the anonymous medieval Crucifixion lyrics; William Langland's Piers Plowman, John Donne's Divine Poems, and John Milton's Paradise Lost-this book examines the nature of poetic encounter with God. At the same time, the author makes original contributions to the discussion of critical dilemmas in the study of each poem or group of poems. The main linguistic focus of this book is on the nature of dialogue with God in religious poetry, an area much neglected by grammarians and often overlooked in studies of literary style. It constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between literature and theology.

Author : Alastair Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192886266
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman written by Alastair Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in the parish. It dramatises preaching as part of its allegorical action, showing how sermons shaped their listeners' understanding of the world; it also includes polemical critique of corrupt, self-interested preaching, and offers radical prescriptions for its reform. This book argues that Langland's central insight into the way that sermons moved and engaged their audiences had to do with their characteristic use of narrative. Preachers in the poem address listeners who are absorbed in the concerns of their present moment, and encourage them to new forms of social and spiritual endeavour by locating that moment in a larger, interpreted plot: the story of an individual life, or an emergent community, or of salvation history as a whole. The book employs a critical vocabulary derived from Paul Ricoeur to describe the process by which these narratives are composed, and to show how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.