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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Langland"”.
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Imagining The Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature
William Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman was probably the first medieval English poem to achieve a national audience because Langland chose to write in the vernacular and he used the specialized vocabularies of his readership to open the poem to them. During the late thirteenth and fourteenth …
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Temporal structures in Piers Plowman
Langland pictured himself as existing both in time, in fourteenth-century England, and out of time, as part of a grand divine scheme. Piers Plowman is fitted into a Biblical and world-historical frame, the pattern of which is the figural interpretation of history. This implies that every …
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Piers Plowman, Legal Authority and the Law of Subject Status.
… examines the legal discourses surrounding Langland's Piers Plowman to show that the language of the law courts, and the dilemmas faced there on a daily basis about the authority of the law, are mirrored in the way in which Langland presents Christ's harrowing of hell at one of the narrative …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… looks at the work of two authors, William Langland and Margery Kempe, who represent themselves as struggling interpreters of prophetic truth in order to model how their audiences should approach the task of understanding their work. Langland exploits the ambiguity of political prophecy in …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… English poets, namely Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of Gower and Langland has been discussed by many other scholars, this study focuses on Chaucer's poems and their implicit …
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Piers Plowman and the Sacraments of Nature
This thesis considers William Langland’s engagement with *sacramenta*, natural signs which manifest some semblance of the divine nature within the created universe. It makes the distinctive claim that the sacramental theology of *Piers Plowman* is interwoven with its natural theology, and that this …
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Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre
… that found their way into the dream poems by Langland, the Pearl poet and Chaucer. The Norwegian ballad Draumkvedet exhibits features that mirror these English visions. Notable characteristics pertaining to the character of the dreamer, the interplay between dreamer and dream, imagery of the …
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The Wayfarer's Way and Two Texts for the Journey: The Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman
… and <italic>Piers Plowman</italic> by William Langland. My arguments are primarily inter- and intra-textual with some attention to the texts' history of interpretation and the socio-historical Catholic culture in which they were written. I conclude that the texts share pedagogical features that …
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Public perception and coastal pollution at identified beaches in south Wales
… beaches in South Wales including Whitmore Bay, Langland Bay and Cefn Sidan. The research also investigated the regulatory framework responsible for the sustainability of coastal tourism and the effectiveness of beach award flags as marketing tools in the promotion of resorts.<br></br><br></br> …
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Fish Assemblage Structure, Distribution, and Trophic Ecology at Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Banks
The northwest Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) shelf-edge banks both provide unique hard bottom habitat and support the northernmost coral reefs on the North American continental shelf in a region that is generally characterized by low relief, soft sediments. The habitat value of many of these banks has led …
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Glorying in a Thorn-Crowned Head: Divine (Im)passibility, Human Suffering, and the Paschal Ecclesiology of the Mystical Body.
… sources will be Julian of Norwich, William Langland, and Gerald Vann OP. By thus bringing voices from an era in which incorporationist ecclesiology and theological impassiblism were axiomatic into dialogue with others from the period conventionally credited with the genesis of the “new …
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Some numerical aspects of developing an operational primitive-equation model for the tropics.
A barotropic primitive equation model on a global tropical grid using operational real data is used to test various boundary conditions and methods of initialization including numerical variational analysis. Comparisons of forecast accuracy are made between staggered and non-staggered grids. All …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… Richard FitzRalph; poets John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer; Oxford dissidents and Bible translators such as Nicholas Hereford; and, most notably, John Wyclif, the Oxford philosopher and preacher who inspired the heretical Lollard movement.</p> <p>The opening chapters present …
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Learning to Love
… one's own story. Chapter three considers William Langland's richly complex fourteenth-century poem, <italic>Piers Plowman</italic>. The horrible failures of the sacrament of penance in this poem cause the Church to crumble. The allegorical Wille is left within this Church with the enjoinder to …
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The function of duality and trinity in the structure of Piers Plowman
<p>Dualities and trinities are everywhere in the poem, sometimes conflicting, sometimes not. They govern the poem in its largest structures, overarching the entire poem, and its smallest, often evoking an additional level of meaning in just a phrase. These groupings of two and three are not …
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Love and Drede: Religious Fear in Middle English
… Plowman that argues a right fear is essential to Langland’s espousal of a poetics of crisis and a crucial element in the questing corrective he applies to self and society. It executes new readings of key episodes in the poem, including the Prologue, Pardon, Crucifixion and the final apocalyptic …