Jeanne Krochalis & Edward Peters 
The World of ‘Piers Plowman’ [PDF ebook] 

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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 political unrest. The World of Piers Plowman puts the reader in touch with the sources that helped shape Langland’s somber vision. The representative documents included in this book, often cited in connection with the poem yet difficult to come by, disclose the background of Piers Plowman in social and economic history as well as folklore, art, theology, homilies, religious tractates, and chronicles.
The seven sections into which the readings are divided illustrate ideas concerning (1) the heavens, the universal Church, England, and London; (2) material and spiritual abuses; (3) the most influential literary genres of the period; (4) exempla, moral tales from hagiography, sermon literature, and tracts on moral theology; (5) types of practical instruction available to the devout layperson; (6) the multiple meanings in many literary works; and (7) the moment of death, the judgments on the soul, and the torments and rewards of the afterlife.

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Jeanne Krochalis is Associate Professor Emeritus of English at Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington. Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format PDF ● Halaman-halaman 288 ● ISBN 9780812205787 ● Saiz fail 8.1 MB ● Penyunting Jeanne Krochalis & Edward Peters ● Penerbit University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● Bandar raya Philadelphia ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2011 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 3138525 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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