Beyond Reformation? : An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity /

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"In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland's Piers Plowman, the most searching Christian poem of the Middle Ages in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aers, David
Otros Autores: Muse, Project
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Langland, William, > 1330?-1400? > Piers Plowman.
Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
Religious thought > Middle Ages.
Religion and culture.
Literature and society.
Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Religion et culture.
Pensee religieuse > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Poesie chretienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Religious thought > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
Christian poetry, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland's Piers Plowman, the most searching Christian poem of the Middle Ages in English. His reading, most unusually, seeks to explore the relations of Langland's poem to both medieval and early modern reformations together with the ending of Constantinian Christianity. Aers concentrates on Langland's extraordinarily rich ecclesiastic politics and on his account of Christian virtues and the struggles of Conscience to discern how to go on in his often baffling culture. The poem's complex allegory engages with most institutions and forms of life. In doing so, it explores moral languages and their relations to current practices and social tendencies. Langland's vision conveys a strange sense that in his historical moment some moral concepts were being transformed and some traditions the author cherished were becoming unintelligible. Beyond Reformation? seeks to show how Langland grasped subtle shifts that were difficult to discern in the fourteenth century but were to become forces with a powerful future in shaping Western Christianity"--
Notas:Title from content provider.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780268074845

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