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Piers Plowman

Contents

  • Reading Middle English
  • Reading Langland’s Alliterative Verse
  • Notes on the Middle English Texts
  • Note on the Translation
  • Using This Edition
  • Abbreviations
  • The Text of Piers Plowman
  • Appendix: The "Autobiographical" Passage from the C-Version
  • Sources and Backgrounds
  • SCRIPTUAL AND RELIGIOUS
  • From the Douai Bible
    • Moses and the Ten Commandments
    • Psalm 22
    • The Good Samaritan
    • Paul’s Allegory of Abraham
    • The Whore of Babylon
  • The Athanasian Creed
  • From The Gospel of Nicodemus
  • From Fasciculus Morum
    • Envy and Bread
  • From Pearl
  • Julian of Norwich, from The Showings of Julian of Norwich
  • Margery Kempe, from The Book of Margery Kempe
  • Walter Hilton, Epistle on the Mixed Life
  • From The Abbey of the Holy Ghost
  • From The Castle of Love
  • Legends of the Virtuous Heathen
  • John Trevisa, from The English Translation of Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon
  • From The Golden Legend, The Story of Trajan
  • From The Examination of William Thorpe
  • Guild Ordinances of St. Peter’s Church, Cornhill
  • Kepe well x and fell from vii
  • Mesure
  • POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL
  • The Plague, 1348–1349
    • Thomas of Walsingham, On the Great Mortality in England, Now Called the "First Pestilence"
    • Robert of Avesbury, On the General Pestilence in England
  • Statutes of the Realm
    • The Statutes of Laborers, 1351
    • The Statute of Pleading, 1362
  • Shorter Poems
    • Pees maketh plenté
    • Bissop lorles
    • Vertues and good lyuinge is cleped ypocrisie
    • God Kepe the Kyng, and Save the Croune
    • Plowman Poems
    • I-blessyd be Cristes sonde
    • God Spede the Plough
    • London Lyckpeny
    • From Symonye and Covetise
  • Longer Poems
    • From Wynnere and Wastour
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, From The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
    • From Richard the Redeless
    • From Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede
    • From Mankind
  • The Letter of John Ball, Sent to the Commons of Essex
  • From the Chronicon Angliae
    • Alice Perrers and Edward III
  • The Crowning of a King
    • Thomas of Walsingham, from the Historia Anglicana
    • The Coronation of Richard II
  • From The Maner and the Forme of the Coronacioun of Kyngis and Quenes of Engelonde
    • The King’s Coronation Oaths
  • Thomas Brinton, Bishop of Rochester, Sermon 69
    • The Parliament of the Mice and Rats
  • The Case of the Earl of Devonshire
    • Esturmy versus Courtenay, 1392
  • Criticism
  • E. Talbot Donaldson, [Summary of the Poem]
  • Crowley, [A Renaissance Reader’s Response]
  • C.S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love
  • R.W. Frank, Jr., from Piers Plowman and the Scheme of Salvation
  • Morton Bloomfield, Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse
  • Charles Muscatine, From The Locus of Action
  • George Kane, [Who Is William Langland?]
  • Elizabeth Salter and Derek Pearsall, An Introduction to Piers Plowman
  • Mary C. Schroeder, The Character of Conscience in Piers Plowman
  • Jill Mann, Eating and Drinking in Piers Plowman
  • Anna Baldwin, The Theme of Government in Piers Plowman
  • John Burrow, The Action of Langland’s Second Vision
  • David Aers, From Community, Gender, and Individual Identity
  • Derek Pearsall, Poverty and Poor People in Piers Plowman
  • Anne Middleton, Kynde Name
  • James Simpson, From Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B Text
  • Ralph Hanna III, [Dating the A, B, and C Versions]
  • C. David Benson, Piers Plowman and Parish Wall Paintings
  • Mary Clemente Davlin, The Place of God in Piers Plowman
  • Elizabeth D. Kirk, "What is this woman?" Langland on Women and Gender
  • Glossary
  • Selected Bibliography

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