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Piers Plowman and Prophecy An Approach to the C-Text

176 Pages

by Routledge

176 Pages

by Routledge

176 Pages

by Routledge

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Originally published in 1991, Piers Plowman: An Approach to the C-Text studies what might be called the "mindscape" of Piers Plowman. The book argues that the C-text poem is inspired by the writings of the biblical prophets. The book outlines the fourteenth-century background and discusses the idea of prophecy and how the biblical prophets were read, as well as the role of literary models such... Read more

Foreword

Introduction, S.S. Hussey

1 Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers Plowman, G.H. Russell

2. The Tearing of the Pardon, Rosemary Woolf

3. Justice, Kingship and the Good Life in the Second Part of Piers Plowman, P.M. Kean

4. Words, Works and Will: Theme and Structure in Piers Plowman, J.A. Burrow

5. Conscience: The Frustration of Allegory, Priscilla Jenkins

6. Piers and the Image of God in Man, Barbara Raw

7. The Rôle of the Dreamer in Piers Plowman, David Mills

8. Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman, T.P. Dunning

9. The Langland Country, R.W.V. Elliott

10. Charity in Piers Plowman, W.O. Evans