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.

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Yeager, Stephen. [verfasserIn]

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E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Toronto: University of Toronto Press ; 2014

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Schlagwörter:

English poetry, History and criticism, Middle English, 1100-1500

Law and literature, History, To 1500, England

Religion and literature, History, To 1500, England

English language, Versification, Middle English, 1100-1500

English language.

English poetry.

Law and literature.

Religion and literature.

HISTORY / Medieval

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1 online resource

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ISBN:

978-1-4426-9616-7

DOI / URN:

10.3138/9781442696167

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1659131596

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