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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Piers Plowman"”.
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Temporal structures in Piers Plowman
… 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 occurrence, in all its everyday reality, is simultaneously part of a world-historical context …
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Piers Plowman and the Sacraments of Nature
… claim that the sacramental theology of *Piers Plowman* is interwoven with its natural theology, and that this relationship is the key to understanding the narrator’s epistemic progress across the poem. I argue that Will’s ability to draw supernatural knowledge from natural signs at the …
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Piers Plowman, Legal Authority and the Law of Subject Status.
… 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 climaxes …
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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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The Wayfarer's Way and Two Texts for the Journey: The Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman
… by Thomas Aquinas 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 …
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The Plowman as Preacher: The Allegorical and Structural Significance of Piers The Plowman in 'Piers Plowman.'
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Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays
… of the fourteenth century. Of course Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are even better evidences of this fact, but somehow the spirit of any age is nowhere in literature as vividly and correctly depicted and reflected as in its plays. To account for this dominant realistic …
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Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre
… special resemblance to the Dream of the Rood, Piers Plowman and Pearl in its exploration of Christian doctrine and its appeal to the audience.
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
… Espurgatoire seint Patriz, William Langland's Piers Plowman, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, and Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur. This dissertation reveals that several texts subscribed to an expectation of cosmic and personal annihilation, in the Augustinian representation, or of …
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The life of a book: British Library manuscript additional 35157 in historical context
… copy of William Langland's alliterative poem Piers Plowman. Part one contains the text of the dissertation. In chapter 1 a general outline of the dissertation is provided and some bibliographical issues relating to the identification of Add.35157 are discussed. Chapter 2 proposes that the …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… reads Gower's Confessio Amantis and Langland's Piers Plowman as anti-crusade poems. The third chapter reads Chaucer's poems written before the Canterbury Tales as a critique of crusading. The fourth chapter argues that one of the central themes of the Canterbury Tales is to indirectly denounce …
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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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Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory
… of two medieval dream-vision texts: Pearl and Piers Plowman respectively. Chapter Five treats the ekphrastic nature of the medieval mystical visionary text, noting its relationship to memory and traditional characteristics of mystical visions, such as apophasis and synaesthesia; the subsequent …
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Interart Studies from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era: Stylistic Parallels between English Poetry and the Visual Arts
… Survival." Next, William Langland's Piers Plowman is a poem that has defied efforts at generic classification. But the provocative work of the Rohan Master suggests a larger cultural context in which to situate and characterize Langland's work. Chapters Three and Four examine Milton's …
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Learning to Love
… 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 "learn the craft of love." For Wille to learn the craft of …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… exploits the ambiguity of political prophecy in Piers Plowman, citing predictions that could either refer to an ideal earthly ruler or the second coming of Christ. Through Will’s struggles to comprehend the incomprehensible, Langland reminds his readers to focus on their individual salvation, …
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Love and Drede: Religious Fear in Middle English
… medieval layperson. Chapter Four is a reading of Piers 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 …