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Next to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, William Langland's Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland's work, more socially concerned and critical than Chaucer's, reflected an age of religious controversy, social upheaval, and pol...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Peters, Edward H., Krochalis, Jeanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Middle English
Published: [Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Langland, William, > 1330?-1400? > Piers Plowman.
Langland, William, > 1330?-1400?. > Piers Plowman.
Langland, William. > Piers Plowman.
Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
1066-1500
Manners and customs in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500.
Mœurs et coutumes dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
English literature > Middle English.
Manners and customs.
Piers Plowman (Langland)
England > Social life and customs > 1066-1485.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 1066-1485.
England.
"Multi-User"
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Macrocosm and microcosm
  • pt. II. Abuses in the church and the world
  • pt. III. The voice of the preacher and the heretic
  • pt. IV. Moral and miracle : the saint's life and the exemplum
  • pt. V. Instruction and action
  • pt. VI. Paysage moralisee
  • pt. VII. This is the way the world ends.

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