From lawmen to plowmen : Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland / / Stephen M. Yeager

• Autore: Yeager Stephen M. <1979->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.1093554
• Soggetto topico: English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism; English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Versification; Law and literature - England - History - To 1500; Religion and literature - England - History - To 1500; Alliteration
• Soggetto geografico: England
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: From lawmen to plowmen
• ISBN: 1-4426-9617-6; 1-4426-9616-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787002003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; ; 17.