Public Piers Plowman : modern scholarship and late medieval English culture

Resource Information

The work Public Piers Plowman : modern scholarship and late medieval English culture represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Public Piers Plowman : modern scholarship and late medieval English culture

Title remainder

modern scholarship and late medieval English culture

Statement of responsibility

C. David Benson

Creator

• Benson, C. David

Author

• Benson, C. David

Subject

• Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
• Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
• Art and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
• Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
• Literature and history -- England -- History -- To 1500
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"Public Piers Plowman is divided into two parts. The first is an extended essay on what Benson calls the "Langland myth." He traces the evolution of Piers scholarship and demonstrates the limitations of treating Piers as a direct expression of the poet's experience and intellectual views." "In the second part Benson offers an alternative history for the poem. Benson approaches it from a broader public context, using representative examples from vernacular writing, parish art, and civic practices. He argues that Piers reached a wide contemporary audience because, far from being an account only of the author's own life and opinions, it was securely rooted in the common culture of its time and place."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication level undetermined

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR2015

LC item number

.B4 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography