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Addressing 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.
English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Langland, Willilam, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authorship. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Literature --- Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern --- Study and teaching --- Langland, William, --- Langland, Robert, --- Langland, Uĭli︠a︡m, --- Mystical poetry. --- Literary Criticism --- History and criticism --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- criticism and interpretation --- authorship --- Geoffrey Chaucer --- Latin --- London --- Manuscript --- Piers Plowman --- William Langland
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The 2004 announcement that Chaucer's scribe had been discovered resulted in a paradigm shift in medieval studies. Adam Pynkhurst dominated the classroom, became a fictional character, and led to suggestions that this identification should prompt the abandonment of our understanding of the development of London English and acceptance that the clerks of the Guildhall were promoting vernacular literature as part of a concerted political program. In this meticulously researched study, Lawrence Warner challenges the narratives and conclusions of recent scholarship. In place of the accepted story, Warner provides a fresh, more nuanced one in which many more scribes, anonymous ones, worked in conditions we are only beginning to understand. Bringing to light new information, not least, hundreds of documents in the hand of one of the most important fifteenth-century scribes of Chaucer and Langland, this book represents an important intervention in the field of Middle English studies.
Manuscripts, Medieval --- Scribes --- English literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Copyists
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Langland, William, --- Langland, William, --- Criticism, Textual. --- Manuscripts.
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English literature --- England --- London
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