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Wittig, Joseph S. "William Langland's "Piers Plowman": The C Version. William Langland , George Economou." Speculum 75, no. 4 (October 2000): 955–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903583.

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Levey, D. "Theology and practice in Piers Plowman." Literator 16, no. 2 (May 2, 1995): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v16i2.629.

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The fourteenth-century English poem Piers Plowman, by William Langland, tells of a quest for and pilgrimage to Truth, or God. The poem is lengthy and diffuse, and evidences Langland’s keen interest in philosophy, theology, politics, social conditions and apocalyptic literature, to mention only some areas. Underlying all, however, is a concern with the practical living-out of abstruse doctrinal concepts in everyday life. This essay explores certain characters and concepts which embody the doctrine and practice of charity, in order to demonstrate the interweaving of theory and practice which characterizes Langland at his best.

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STEINER, EMILY. "Piers Plowman, Diversity, and the Medieval Political Aesthetic." Representations 91, no. 1 (2005): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2005.91.1.1.

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ABSTRACT This essay argues that later medieval English poetry, and William Langland's Piers Plowman in particular, developed strains of political thought that originated with Continental legal scholars. More specifically, Langland, in concert with other fourteenth-century alliterative poets, helped shape political thought about diversity, an ““unfinished”” project of earlier Continental philosophers and jurists, through radical experiments in poetic form.

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Alford, John A. "William Langland. John Norton-Smith." Speculum 61, no. 1 (January 1986): 192–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2854573.

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Matheson, Lister M. "Ralph Hanna III, William Langland." Yearbook of Langland Studies 08 (January 1994): 192–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.yls.2.302849.

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Johnston, Michael. "William Langland and John Ball." Yearbook of Langland Studies 30 (January 2016): 29–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.yls.5.111394.

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Baldwin, Anna P. "Joseph S. Wittig, William Langland Revisited." Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (January 1998): 222–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.yls.2.302776.

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Warner, Lawrence. "Langland and the Problem of William of Palerne." Viator 37 (January 2006): 397–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.viator.2.3017493.

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Sutton, Peter. "Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman”." Armenian Folia Anglistika 10, no. 1-2 (12) (October 15, 2014): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2014.10.1-2.054.

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William Langland’s 8000-line fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman uses an alliterative rhyme scheme inherited from Old English in which, instead of a rhyme at the end of a line, at least three out of the four stressed syllables in each line begin with the same sound, and this is combined with a caesura at the mid-point of the line. Examples show that Langland does not obey the rules exactly, but he is nevertheless thought to be at the forefront of a revival of alliterative verse. Further examples demonstrate that alliteration was never entirely replaced by end-rhyme and remains a feature of presentday vernacular English and poetry, even though the rhyme scheme is obsolete. It is deeply embedded in the structure and psyche of the English language.

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Galloway, Andrew. "Langland and the Reinvention of Array in Late-Medieval England." Review of English Studies 71, no. 301 (October 25, 2019): 607–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz123.

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Abstract Tradecraft lurks throughout the allegories of cloth-making in William Langland’s Piers Plowman, more fully and sympathetically expressed than scholars have realized. But in spite of the depth of lore there, the poem continually examines the problem of supervising such craft production and producers. Assessing this double perspective adds a distinctive chapter to understandings of how Piers Plowman invokes and requires wide economic and social contexts, specifically those focused on cloth production, a topic more amenable to ‘thing theory’ than the ‘costume rhetoric’ often applied to the presentations of array in Chaucer and other poets. All writers in the period were confronted with major changes in how clothing was made, sold, and worn, but Piers Plowman’s concerns differ significantly from contemporary writings both in how intricately the poem invokes the cloth industry yet how frequently it indicates the need for its punctilious governance (and that of craft and labour in general). Langland’s presentations of array offer not only an original and highly informed contribution to a central instance of late-medieval social and allegorical signification but also a contradictory response to its changing social, industrial, and institutional dimensions. Langland uses array and its making and remaking to affirm craft, process, and aesthetics in general while imagining new forms of governance, religious and political, that might contain its social and ethical disruptions.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "William Langland"

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Clifton, Linda J. "Piers Plowman B in its contemplative context /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9475.

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Taylor, Sean Patrick. "The R Manuscript of Piers Plowman B : a critical fascimile /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9482.

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Slefinger, John T. "Refashioning Allegorical Imagery: From Langland to Spenser." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150048449869678.

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Scott, Diane Gillies. "Silent reading and the medieval text : the development of reading practices in the early prints of William Langland and John Lydgate." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6356/.

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This thesis is concerned with reading practices and the late medieval vernacular text. More specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the medieval text was read and received in early modern England. The analysis focuses on two texts in their early modern instantiations: the late fourteenth century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman by William Langland, and the early fifteenth century Fall of Princes, a translation of Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium by Benedictine monk John Lydgate. The thesis considers the reception of these poems as they are reworked and reread by successive editors and readers during the shift from script to print, and from a culture of orality to a culture of silent reading. The reception of and editorial policy applied to these texts are considered in relation to the political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth century, and to developments in literacy and literary culture. The editions selected for analysis range from an early manuscript of a B-text version of Piers Plowman, Trinity College Cambridge, MS B.15.17, through to an early seventeenth century print of the Mirror for Magistrates, an early modern reworking of Lydgate’s Fall, published in 1619. The thesis engages with Zumthor’s theory of textual mouvance in that each edition is granted the authority of its own circumstances of production and reception. The synchronic analysis highlights the economic and political pressures which influenced and/or constrained editorial decisions. In charting the various editions through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the thesis provides a complementary diachronic perspective which places each edition within the wider history of textual transmission and in relation to developments in literary culture. The combined synchronic and diachronic analysis of the printed late medieval text provides an insight into developments in reading habits and changing attitudes towards authorship and the functions of literature more generally. The evidence for the development of reading practices can be found in the interaction between the text and its systems of punctuation and paratext. Systems of punctuation and features of paratext act as guide and mediator between the text and the reader; it is these forms and levels of mediation, and the relationship between them, which can indicate patterns of literacy and reader engagement. Thus, developments in the systems of punctuation and paratext interact with changing models of the reader and the various types of ‘literate activities’ available to them (Salter 2012: 67). The late medieval period has been described as a culture of ‘literate orality’ (Sponsler 2010: 1) and its readers exhibited a diverse range of reading practices. The oral and aural characteristics of literary culture gradually declined in the late medieval and early modern periods but a ‘critical mass’ of silent readers did not emerge until the end of the seventeenth century (Jajdelska 2007). Adopting and adapting Jajdelska’s theory of the changing reader model, this thesis focuses on the chosen texts as they appear before the emergence of this ‘critical mass’. The analysis of reading practices, therefore, pertains to the period of transition during which readers negotiated existing oral/aural reading environments while moving towards a predominantly silent reading culture. The thesis demonstrates that the transition was gradual and that sixteenth-century literary culture was diverse in both its reading habits and reading practices. The emerging discipline of historical sociopragmatics provides the theoretical and methodological bridge between the diachronic description of punctuation and paratext, and the examination of reading practices. Historical sociopragmatics allows established insights from sociolinguistics and pragmatics to be applied to the written historical text, creating new opportunities for the recovery and analysis of textual production, editorial treatment and reader engagement. This thesis brings the sociopragmatic concept of ‘situational contexts’ (Culpepper 2011: 4) to the analysis of the physical page and, more specifically, to the interactions between punctuation and paratextual systems. By applying a sociopragmatic approach to the concept of the reader model, this thesis demonstrates that systems of punctuation and paratext provide important evidence for the history textual transmission, reader engagement and the development of reading practices.

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Rayner, Samantha J. "Images of kingship in the works of the four major Ricardian poets : John Gower, William Langland, the Gawain-poet and Geoffrey Chaucer." Thesis, Bangor University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429850.

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Walther, James T. "Imagining The Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2592/.

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William Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman was probably the first medieval English poem to achieve a national audience because Langland chose to write in the vernacular and he used the specialized vocabularies of his readership to open the poem to them. During the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, writers began using the vernacular in an attempt to allow all English people access to their texts. They did so consciously, indicating their intent in prologues and envois when they formally address readers. Some writers, like Langland and the author of Mankind, actually use representatives of the rural classes as primary characters who exhibit the beliefs and lives of the rural population. Anne Middleton's distinction between public-the readership an author imagined-and audience-the readership a work achieved-allows modern critics to discuss both public and audience and try to determine how the two differed. While the public is always only a presumption, the language in which an author writes and the cultural events depicted by the literature can provide a more plausible estimate of the public. The vernacular allowed authors like Gower, Chaucer, the author of Mankind, and Langland to use the specialized vocabularies of the legal and rural communities to discuss societal problems. They also use representatives of the communities to further open the texts to a vernacular public. These open texts provide some representation for the rural and common people's ideas about the other classes to be heard. Langland in particular uses the specialized vocabularies and representative characters to establish both the faults of all English people and a common guide they can follow to seek moral lives through Truth. His rural character, Piers the Plowman, allows rural readers to identify with the messages in the text while showing upper class and educated readers that they too can emulate a rural character who sets a moral standard.

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Bewernick, Hanne. "The storyteller's memory palace a method of interpretation based on the function of memory systems in literature ; Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1001701801/04.

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Kennedy, Kathleen Erin. "Maintaining injustice literary representations of the legal system C1400 /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1085059076.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.
Document formatted into pages; contains 213 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2009 May 29.

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Regetz, Timothy. "Lollardy and Eschatology: English Literature c. 1380-1430." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404582/.

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In this dissertation, I examine the various ways in which medieval authors used the term "lollard" to mean something other than "Wycliffite." In the case of William Langland's Piers Plowman, I trace the usage of the lollard-trope through the C-text and link it to Langland's dependence on the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. Regarding Chaucer's Parson's Tale, I establish the orthodoxy of the tale's speaker by comparing his tale to contemporaneous texts of varying orthodoxy, and I link the Parson's being referred to as a "lollard" to the eschatological message of his tale. In the chapter on The Book of Margery Kempe, I examine that the overemphasis on Margery's potential Wycliffism causes everyone in The Book to overlook her heretical views on universal salvation. Finally, in comparing some of John Lydgate's minor poems with the macaronic sermons of Oxford, MS Bodley 649, I establish the orthodox character of late-medieval English anti-Wycliffism that these disparate works share. In all, this dissertation points up the eschatological character of the lollard-trope and looks at the various ends to which medieval authors deployed it.

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Mairey, Aude. "La vision du monde dans la poésie allitérative anglaise du quatorzième siècle anglais." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2002. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00426683.

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Les poèmes allitératifs anglais, dont le représentant le plus illustre est le Piers Plowman de William Langland, s'inscrivent au sein d'un système de communication en pleine évolution dans l'Angleterre du XIVe siècle. L'extension de la literacy – l'aptitude à lire et à écrire – et le développement de l'anglais en sont les éléments les plus significatifs. L'objet de cette étude est l'interaction entre les différents aspects de ce système et les poèmes, afin de dégager toute la richesse de textes littéraires qui peuvent être considérés comme des sources historiques à part entière. Les thèmes abordés sont nombreux, au regard des multiples intérêts des poètes, préalablement replacés dans leur cadre social et culturel : l'organisation de la société, le gouvernement et la justice, l'institution ecclésiastique et la connaissance, la perception du salut de chacun et de tous, le positionnement des auteurs par rapport à leur activité. Leurs critiques, mais aussi leurs propositions et leurs espoirs, reflètent et enrichissent un dialogue de plus en plus large au sein de la société anglaise.

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Books on the topic "William Langland"

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Hanna, Ralph. William Langland. Aldershot, UK: Variorum, 1993.

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Wittig, Joseph S. William Langland revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.

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William Langland, William Blake, and the poetry of hope. Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2003.

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Bowers, John M. Chaucer and Langland: The antagonistic tradition. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

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Pates, Stella. John Grandisson, William Langland and "Piers Plowman": A theory of authorship. Cirencester: Fairford Press, 2000.

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Kane, George. Chaucer and Langland: Historical and textual approaches. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

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Chaucer and Langland: Historical and textual approaches. London: Athlone Press, 1989.

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F. R. H. Du Boulay. The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and his vision of the fourteenth century. Cambridge [England]: D.S. Brewer, 1991.

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Schmidt, A. V. C. The clerkly maker: Langland's poetic art. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987.

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The pilgrim and the book: A study of Dante, Langland, and Chaucer. New York: P. Lang, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "William Langland"

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Clemente Davlin OP, Sister Mary. "William Langland." In The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature, 116–33. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444324174.ch9.

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Füger, Wilhelm. "Langland, William." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_8930-1.

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Warner, Lawrence. "William Langland: Piers Plowman." In A Companion to Medieval Poetry, 401–13. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444319095.ch22.

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Füger, Wilhelm. "Langland, William: The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_8931-1.

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Fonzo, Kimberly. "William Langland's Uncertain Apocalyptic Prophecy of the Davidic King." In Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 53–64. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.asmar-eb.5.117179.

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Pigg, Daniel F. "William Langland’s Attitude Toward Play, Leisure, and Pastime: A Realignment of Priorities in Post-Plague England." In Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, edited by Albrecht Classen, 433–50. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110623079-012.

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Hanna, Ralph. "William Langland." In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500, 125–38. Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521841672.010.

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Steiner, Emily. "William Langland." In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature, 121–34. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316848296.010.

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"WILLIAM LANGLAND." In Authors of the Middle Ages. Volume I, Nos 1–4, 139–62. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315261881-11.

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"William Langland." In English Literature in the Age of Chaucer, 92–119. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315836669-12.

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