03134nam 2200745 450 991078700200332120230226050856.01-4426-9617-61-4426-9616-810.3138/9781442696167(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(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105770(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.From written record to memory : a brief history of Anglo-Saxon legal-homiletic discourse -- Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi : homily, law, and the legacy of Wulfstan -- Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in thirteenth-century Worcester : The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred -- La[y]amon's Brut : law, literature, and the chronicle-poem -- Defining the Piers Plowman tradition -- Documents, dreams and the Langlandian legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger.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.Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ;17.English poetryMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismEnglish languageMiddle English, 1100-1500VersificationLaw and literatureEnglandHistoryTo 1500Religion and literatureEnglandHistoryTo 1500AlliterationEnglandfastEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.English languageVersification.Law and literatureHistoryReligion and literatureHistoryAlliteration.821/.1093554Yeager Stephen M.1979-1533224MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787002003321From lawmen to plowmen3780013UNINA