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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"William Langland"”.
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The Wayfarer's Way and Two Texts for the Journey: The Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman
… 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 texts share pedagogical …
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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 …
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Glorying in a Thorn-Crowned Head: Divine (Im)passibility, Human Suffering, and the Paschal Ecclesiology of the Mystical Body.
… Key primary 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 …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… archbishop 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 …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… this project 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 …
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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 …