The Lost History of Piers Plowman: The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work

by Lawrence Warner

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Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" engages with these questions to bring...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812242750

ISBN13:9780812242751

Release Date:November 2010

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:136 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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