From Lawmen to Plowmen - Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland

By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland’s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.

Sommario

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse
Chapter 2
Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan
Chapter 3
Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester:The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred
Chapter 4
Läamon’s Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem
Chapter 5
Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition
Chapter 6
Documents, Dreams and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger
Conclusion
Bibliography

Info autore

Stephen M. Yeager is a professor of English at Concordia University.

Riassunto

By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland’s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Yeager
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.10.2014
• EAN: 9781442643475
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4347-5
• Pagine: 280
• Serie: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon; Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata