04046nam 2200721 450 991046034240332120200520144314.01-4426-9616-810.3138/9781442696167(CKB)3710000000268205(EBL)3295682(SSID)ssj0001382737(PQKBManifestationID)12598780(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001382737(PQKBWorkID)11460270(PQKB)10362155(MiAaPQ)EBC4672871(CEL)438866(OCoLC)898086004(CaBNVSL)thg00915037(MiAaPQ)EBC3295682(DE-B1597)465194(OCoLC)894227655(DE-B1597)9781442696167(Au-PeEL)EBL4672871(CaPaEBR)ebr11258522(EXLCZ)99371000000026820520160915h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom lawmen to plowmen Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland /Stephen M. YeagerToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2014.©20141 online resource (281 p.)Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ;171-4426-4347-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse -- 2. Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan -- 3. Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester: The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred -- 4. Laȝamon’s Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem -- 5. Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition -- 6. Documents, Dreams, and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the flourishing of alliterative verse satires in late medieval England by observing the similarities between these satires and the legal-homiletical literature of the Anglo-Saxon era.Unlike Old English alliterative poetry, Anglo-Saxon legal texts and documents continued to be studied long after the Norman Conquest. By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland’s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. His conclusions establish a new genealogy for medieval England’s vernacular literary tradition and offer a new way of approaching one of Middle English’s literary classics.Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ;17.English poetryMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismEnglish languageMiddle English, 1100-1500VersificationLaw and literatureEnglandHistoryTo 1500Religion and literatureEnglandHistoryTo 1500AlliterationElectronic books.English poetryHistory and criticism.English languageVersification.Law and literatureHistoryReligion and literatureHistoryAlliteration.821/.1093554Yeager Stephen M.1979-938895MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460342403321From lawmen to plowmen2116446UNINA