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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yeager, Stephen M., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Series:Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 17.
Subjects:
To 1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Versification.
Law and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Religion and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Alliteration.
Poésie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Anglais (Langue) > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Versification.
Allitération.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Alliteration
English language > Middle English > Versification
English poetry > Middle English
Law and literature
Religion and literature
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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