A Companion to Piers PlowmanJohn A. Alford University of California Press, 1988 - 286 páginas A Companion to Piers Plowman is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece. Until now no single volume has discussed the broad range of issues raised here, nor have previous studies drawn on such an internationally distinguished group of Langland scholars. |
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The Critical Heritage | 1 |
The Design of the Poem | 29 |
The Historical Context | 67 |
Langlands Theology | 87 |
Allegorical Visions | 117 |
Satire | 135 |
Medieval Sermons | 155 |
The Text | 175 |
Dialect and Grammar | 201 |
Alliterative Style | 223 |
The Legacy of Piers Plowman | 251 |
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