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Piers Plowman: The B-Version Archetype (Bx)

Piers Plowman: The B-Version Archetype (Bx)

Burrow, John
Langland, William
Turville-Petre, Thorlac

Paperback

Series: Piers Plowman Electronic Archive in Print

Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1941331149
ISBN13: 9781941331149
Publisher: Society Early English and Norse Electronic Te
Published: Jul 15 2018
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the B-text tradition.

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