03569nam 2200673 a 450 991078851190332120200520144314.01-283-89916-70-8122-0578-210.9783/9780812205787(CKB)3240000000068522(EBL)3441984(SSID)ssj0000676495(PQKBManifestationID)11418807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676495(PQKBWorkID)10678636(PQKB)10341680(OCoLC)794702273(MdBmJHUP)muse17901(DE-B1597)449246(OCoLC)979684788(DE-B1597)9780812205787(Au-PeEL)EBL3441984(CaPaEBR)ebr10642736(CaONFJC)MIL421166(OCoLC)843080378(MiAaPQ)EBC3441984(EXLCZ)99324000000006852220130115d1982 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe world of Piers Plowman[electronic resource] /edited by Jeanne Krochalis and Edward PetersPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Press19821 online resource (288 p.)The Middle Ages seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-1085-9 Includes bibliographical references.pt. I. Macrocosm and microcosm -- pt. II. Abuses in the church and the world -- pt. III. The voice of the preacher and the heretic -- pt. IV. Moral and miracle : the saint's life and the exemplum -- pt. V. Instruction and action -- pt. VI. Paysage moralisee -- pt. VII. This is the way the world ends.Next to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, William Langland's Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland's work, more socially concerned and critical than Chaucer's, reflected an age of religious controversy, social upheaval, and political unrest. The World of Piers Plowman puts the reader in touch with the sources that helped shape Langland's somber vision. The representative documents included in this book, often cited in connection with the poem yet difficult to come by, disclose the background of Piers Plowman in social and economic history as well as folklore, art, theology, homilies, religious tractates, and chronicles.The seven sections into which the readings are divided illustrate ideas concerning (1) the heavens, the universal Church, England, and London; (2) material and spiritual abuses; (3) the most influential literary genres of the period; (4) exempla, moral tales from hagiography, sermon literature, and tracts on moral theology; (5) types of practical instruction available to the devout layperson; (6) the multiple meanings in many literary works; and (7) the moment of death, the judgments on the soul, and the torments and rewards of the afterlife.Middle Ages series.English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500Manners and customs in literatureEnglandSocial life and customs1066-1485English literatureManners and customs in literature.821.1Krochalis Jeanne1570905Peters Edward202722MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788511903321The world of Piers Plowman3844876UNINA