The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and his Vision of the Fourteenth Century
D.S.Brewer
Edition: This is the FIRST EDITION, 1991-03-07
EAN 9780859913126, ISBN10: 0859913120
Paperback, 176 pages, 15.4 x 1.8 x 1.1 cm
Makes this wonderful poem seem more accessible to everyone. MEDIUM ÆVUM A well-balanced and well-written introduction to the most important aspects of the social context of the poem, not only for the general reader and for undergraduates and more advanced students but also for the specialist about to undertake a new study of Piers Plowman. ANGLIA Du Boulay's object is ...to introduce England and English society as William Langland perceived them... (he) has executed it superlatively well. Whether one is reading Piers Plowman for the first or for the umpteenth time there are rich rewards to be found in this book, not only in its fine scholarship but also in its humane perception of the spiritual dilemmas of a past age. MAURICE KEEN, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW (6/94)