Piers Plowman - A Parallel-text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions: Text

"One text of the Piers Plowman poems is found in the Bodleian Library's Rawlinson Poetry MS 137. This manuscript presents an important witness to the A version, and it is on that text that the present edition is based"--Text.

About the author

A. V. C. Schmidt was a Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, and specializes in Piers Plowman and Chaucer.

Summary

Volume 1 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students as possible.

Product details

• Authors: A. V. C. (EDT) Schmidt
• Assisted by: A V C Schmidt (Editor), A. V. Schmidt (Editor), A. V. C. Schmidt (Editor)
• Publisher: Western michigan uni medieval
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2011
• EAN: 9781580441582
• ISBN: 978-1-58044-158-2
• No. of pages: 762
• Series: Research in Medieval and Early; Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; Research in Medieval and Early; Research in Medieval Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies