LEADER 04046nam 2200721 450 001 9910460342403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9616-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442696167 035 $a(CKB)3710000000268205 035 $a(EBL)3295682 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001382737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12598780 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001382737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11460270 035 $a(PQKB)10362155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672871 035 $a(CEL)438866 035 $a(OCoLC)898086004 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00915037 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3295682 035 $a(DE-B1597)465194 035 $a(OCoLC)894227655 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442696167 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672871 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258522 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000268205 100 $a20160915h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom lawmen to plowmen $eAnglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland /$fStephen M. Yeager 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Anglo-Saxon series ;$v17 311 $a1-4426-4347-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse -- $t2. Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan -- $t3. Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester: The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred -- $t4. La?amon?s Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem -- $t5. Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition -- $t6. Documents, Dreams, and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland?s Piers Plowman and the flourishing of alliterative verse satires in late medieval England by observing the similarities between these satires and the legal-homiletical literature of the Anglo-Saxon era.Unlike Old English alliterative poetry, Anglo-Saxon legal texts and documents continued to be studied long after the Norman Conquest. By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland?s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. His conclusions establish a new genealogy for medieval England?s vernacular literary tradition and offer a new way of approaching one of Middle English?s literary classics. 410 0$aToronto Anglo-Saxon series ;$v17. 606 $aEnglish poetry$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xVersification 606 $aLaw and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aAlliteration 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish language$xVersification. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAlliteration. 676 $a821/.1093554 700 $aYeager$b Stephen M.$f1979-$0938895 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460342403321 996 $aFrom lawmen to plowmen$92116446 997 $aUNINA