Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript Tradition Wood Sarah
Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript Tradition Wood Sarah The fifty-plus surviving manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plowman cast important light on the early public life of this central Middle…
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Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript Tradition Wood Sarah
The fifty-plus surviving manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plowman cast important light on the early public life of this central Middle English work, but they have been relatively neglected by scholarship. It illuminates a reception quite distinct from the reformist poems written by Langland's imitators in the Piers Plowman tradition. This first full study of the subject examines the textual variants, marginal rubrics and companion texts in the manuscripts.
Exploring Piers Plowman's appearances in the manuscripts, paired unexpectedly with such genres as romance, hagiography and travel literature, the book demonstrates the surprisingly affective responses of medieval It reveals how the earliest scribes devised various traditional forms of presentation that proved remarkably durable in the poem's subsequent reception, even surviving into the age of print.
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