The Yearbook of Langland Studies 3 (1989)

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Extent: 221 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1989)

ISBN: 9780937191156

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 On Translating Piers Plowman by E. Talbot Donaldson, George Economou, Richard Barnes The Dismas Distinctio and the Forms of Piers Plowman B.10-13 by David G. Allen Gesture of Perception: The Pattern of Kneeling in Piers Plowman B.18-19 by James F. G. Weldon The Textual Principles of Kane's A Text by Charlotte Brewer The Rhetoric of Excess in Winner and Water by Stephanie Trigg NOTES AND DOCUMENTS Walter William Skeat (1835 - 1912) in the Cambridge Review by Arthur Sherbo Some Medical Evidence on Langland's Imaginatif by L. M. Eldgredge REVIEW ARTICLE The Ages of Man by John B. Friedman REVIEWS Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague by Priscilla Martin William J. Courtenay, Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England by Denies N. Baker Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds., Medieval English Studies presented to George Kane by Thomas J. Garbaty Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson, eds., Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of G. H. Russell by A. J. Minnis Forrest S. Smith, Secular and Sacred Visionaries in the Late Middle Ages by Avril Henry Hugh White, Nature and Salvation in Piers Plowman by A. V. C. Schmidt Jon Whitman, Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique by John M. Bowers NOTICES George Kane, Chaucer and Langland
George Kane, ed., Piers Plowman: The A Version
George Kane and E. Talbot Donaldson, eds., Piers Plowman: The B Version ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1988 by Vincent DiMarco Index