The Yearbook of Langland Studies 2 (1988)

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Extent: 214 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1988)

ISBN: 9780937191088

Price: $10.00

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Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on “Piers Plowman”; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. They contain essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.


Beginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on “Piers Plowman”; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each annual volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.

Abbreviations ARTICLES Langland's Plowman and the Recreation of the Fourteenth-Century Religious Metaphor by Elizabeth D. Kirk Piers Plowman and the books of Wisdom by Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P. Langland and FitzRalph: Two Solutions to the Mendicant Problem by T. P. Dolan Middle English meter and Its Theoretical Implications by Thomas Cable Piers Plowman, the Wycliffites, and Pierce the Plowman's Creed by Christina von Nolcken The Poetic Art of Death and Life by Susanna Fein NOTES Langland's Use of the Term Ex vi transicionis by Cynthia Renee Bland The Abbess's ABC by Josephine Koster Tarvers REVIEW ARTICLE Wyclif in Our Times: The Wyclif Sexcentenary, 1984 by Christina von Nolcken REVIEWS J. A. W. Bennett, Middle English Literature by A. C. Spearing Thomas J. Heffernan, ed., The Popular Literature of Medieval England by Stephen Knight Francis X. Newman, ed., Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages by Judith M. Bennett A. V. C. Schmidt, The Clerkly Maker: Langland's Poetic Art by Hoyt N. Duggan Penn R. Szittya, The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature by Katherine Walsh NOTICES John A. Alford, ed., A Companion to Piers Plowman
John A. Alford, Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction
Angus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English
The Vernon Manuscript. A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. Poet a. 1. ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY for 1987 by Vincent DiMarco Index