02957nam 2200529 450 991080797220332120230807202738.00-268-07484-40-268-15800-2(CKB)4330000000002970(MiAaPQ)EBC4451825(OCoLC)928448401(MdBmJHUP)muse47010(Au-PeEL)EBL4451825(CaPaEBR)ebr11174249(CaONFJC)MIL902856(EXLCZ)99433000000000297020160329h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBeyond reformation? an essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the end of Constantinian Christianity /David AersNotre Dame, Indiana :University of Notre Dame,2015.©20151 online resource (201 pages)0-268-02046-9 Includes bibliographical references."In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland's Piers Plowman, the most searching Christian poem of the Middle Ages in English. His reading, most unusually, seeks to explore the relations of Langland's poem to both medieval and early modern reformations together with the ending of Constantinian Christianity. Aers concentrates on Langland's extraordinarily rich ecclesiastic politics and on his account of Christian virtues and the struggles of Conscience to discern how to go on in his often baffling culture. The poem's complex allegory engages with most institutions and forms of life. In doing so, it explores moral languages and their relations to current practices and social tendencies. Langland's vision conveys a strange sense that in his historical moment some moral concepts were being transformed and some traditions the author cherished were becoming unintelligible. Beyond Reformation? seeks to show how Langland grasped subtle shifts that were difficult to discern in the fourteenth century but were to become forces with a powerful future in shaping Western Christianity" --Provided by publisher.Christian poetry, English (Middle)History and criticismLiterature and societyEnglandHistoryTo 1500Religious thoughtMiddle Ages, 600-1500Religion and cultureChristian poetry, English (Middle)History and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryReligious thoughtReligion and culture.821/.1Aers David192551MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807972203321Beyond reformation4082719UNINA