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020 _z9781107043633 (hardback)
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100 1 _aWarner, Lawrence,
_d1968-
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe myth of Piers Plowman :
_bconstructing a medieval literary archive /
_cLawrence Warner.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;
_v89
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2016).
500 _aOpen Access title.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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), 1709-1766 -- 6. William Dupre;, Fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the Age of Forgery; Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman -- Bibliography.
520 _aAddressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem and contextualizes its first modernization. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched.
600 1 0 _aLangland, William,
_d1330?-1400?
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aLangland, William,
_d1330?-1400?
_xAuthorship.
600 1 0 _aLangland, William,
_d1330?-1400?
_tPiers Plowman
_xCriticism, Textual.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107043633
830 0 _aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;
_v89.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338821
999 _c121145
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