Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman
1st Edition
Published on 3. May 2012
200 pages
978-0-19-163648-6 (ISBN)
Description
By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman, Sarah Wood offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the three versions have customarily been read in parallel-text formats, she demonstrates that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if read in sequence.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on the Text
- Introduction: Conscience and Personification in Piers Plowman
- 1. 'Who May Scape þe Sclaundre': Scandal, Complaint, and Invective in B 3-4
- 2. Penitential Texts and Vernacular Conscience in B 13-14
- 3. 'Ecce Rex': Conscience and Homiletic Discourse in B 19
- 4. 'To a Lord for a Lettre Leue to Haue': Lordly Conscience and the Friars in B 20
- 5. New Modes in the C Text: Clerical 'Suffraunce' and Vernacular Counsel
- 6. Conscience in the Versions of Piers Plowman
- Conclusion: Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z
