The Piers Plowman glossary : Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best : a glossary of the English vocabulary of the A, B, and C versions as presented in the Athlone editions / / by George Kane

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826680603321
• Autore: Kane George
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2005
• ISBN: 1-281-29491-8; 9786611294915; 1-84714-379-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The Glossary as an Undertaking; Choosing Instances; Arrangement; Etymologies; Abbreviations; GLOSSARY
• Sommario/riassunto: This Glossary is designed as a companion to William Langland's dream vision poem, Piers Plowman, widely regarded as the greatest literary work in Middle English before Chaucer. It glosses and explains over 5000 English words, and foreign words used as if English, in the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman printed in the critically-acclaimed Athlone editions. Where possible, it illustrates words with examples from all three versions.The first glossary to Piers Plowman was compiled in 1886 by Sir William Skeat but there has been no attempt, until now, to provide a new glossary that takes account o