From Lawmen to Plowmen : Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland /

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By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland's Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Yeager, Stephen M., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religion and literature.
Law and literature.
English poetry > Middle English.
English language > Middle English > Versification.
Alliteration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Anglais (Langue) > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Versification.
Poesie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Religion and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Law and literature > England > History > To 1500.
English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Versification.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From written record to memory : a brief history of Anglo-Saxon legal-homiletic discourse
  • Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi : homily, law, and the legacy of Wulfstan
  • Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in thirteenth-century Worcester : The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred
  • La[y]amon's Brut : law, literature, and the chronicle-poem
  • Defining the Piers Plowman tradition
  • Documents, dreams and the Langlandian legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger.

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