LEADER 02957nam 2200529 450 001 9910794604903321 005 20230807202738.0 010 $a0-268-07484-4 010 $a0-268-15800-2 035 $a(CKB)4330000000002970 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4451825 035 $a(OCoLC)928448401 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4451825 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11174249 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL902856 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000002970 100 $a20160329h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeyond reformation? $ean essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the end of Constantinian Christianity /$fDavid Aers 210 1$aNotre Dame, Indiana :$cUniversity of Notre Dame,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (201 pages) 311 $a0-268-02046-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $a"In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland's Piers Plowman, the most searching Christian poem of the Middle Ages in English. His reading, most unusually, seeks to explore the relations of Langland's poem to both medieval and early modern reformations together with the ending of Constantinian Christianity. Aers concentrates on Langland's extraordinarily rich ecclesiastic politics and on his account of Christian virtues and the struggles of Conscience to discern how to go on in his often baffling culture. The poem's complex allegory engages with most institutions and forms of life. In doing so, it explores moral languages and their relations to current practices and social tendencies. Langland's vision conveys a strange sense that in his historical moment some moral concepts were being transformed and some traditions the author cherished were becoming unintelligible. Beyond Reformation? seeks to show how Langland grasped subtle shifts that were difficult to discern in the fourteenth century but were to become forces with a powerful future in shaping Western Christianity" --$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aReligious thought$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aReligion and culture 615 0$aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aReligious thought 615 0$aReligion and culture. 676 $a821/.1 700 $aAers$b David$0192551 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794604903321 996 $aBeyond reformation$93749572 997 $aUNINA