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Piers Plowman: An Introduction: Second, Revised Edition

Piers Plowman: An Introduction: Second, Revised Edition

Simpson, James

Paperback

Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0859898032
ISBN13: 9780859898034
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Oct 5 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
This book provides an accessible, concise and intellectually stimulating introduction and guide to one of the richest, most challenging poems of pre-Reformation English. New to the internationally-renowned Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series, James Simpson's indispensable guide to Piers Plowman has been fully revised for this reissue. As any teacher of the poem knows, teaching Piers Plowman is massively facilitated by a reliable introductory guide providing both information and interpretation. This book does just that. Its main aim is to demonstrate to undergraduate readers the centrality of Piers Plowman in any account of the literary and cultural history of the later English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman's principal project is the re-imagination of a vernacular Church; the text questions the culture within which it is anchored and moves towards an active re-imagination of social and religious institutions. Simpson's book demonstrates how the poem's historical significance

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