Myth of Piers Plowman - Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Warner is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English at King's College London and Director of the International Piers Plowman Society. His book, The Lost History of 'Piers Plowman': The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work (2011), received Honorable Mention for the 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award of the Society for Textual Scholarship. Klappentext A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Also available as Open Access. Zusammenfassung Lawrence Warner explores the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem! Piers Plowman. He examines the many ways in which scholars! editors and critics manufactured an archive! over 500 years! which was then regarded as providing factual data about the poem. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph Ritson; 1. William and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne; 2. Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe Castle, and the London Riot of 1384; 3. Latinitas et Communitas Visionis Willielmi de Longlond; 4. Quod Piers Plowman: non-Reformist prophecy, c.1520-55; 5. Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS (Huntington Hm 114), 1709-66; 6. William Dupré, Fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the Age of Forgery; Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Lawrence Warner, Lawrence (King's College London) Warner, Lawrence (King''s College London) Warner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107043633
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04363-3
• No. of pages: 239
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies