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Editing Piers Plowman

Editing Piers Plowman

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 28

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521342503
ISBN13: 9780521342506
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Sep 5 1996
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.92
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars. This book is an account of the editions of the poem that have appeared since 1550, when it was first published by the protestant reformer Robert Crowley. It examines the circumstances in which the editions were produced, the lives and intellectual motivations of the editors, and the relationship between one edition and the next. It uses a wide range of published and unpublished material to shed light on attempts to crack one of the major editorial conundrums in medieval studies.

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