... between the B and C texts in their treatment of the subject are given special attention. The emphasis is always on the continuously evolving drama of Piers Plowman as a poem searching for the truth of belief rather than as a poem that expounds a system of already-existing belief. Duke University Press...

...Rachael Deagman This essay shows that the C-text of William Langland's Piers Plowman articulates difficulties with the process of learning to forgive, a process that for medieval Christians requires mutuality and participation in the sacrament of penance. Tracing the terms forgeue and forgeueness...

...Katherine C. Little The figure of the plowman achieved a certain popularity in mid-sixteenth-century England with the publication of William Langland's medieval poem, Piers Plowman , and in a number of treatises written in imitation of it such as I playne Piers which cannot flatter . This post...

...David Aers This essay argues that William Langland’s great poem Piers Plowman poses serious questions both to the tradition of the virtues that Langland inherited and to the possibility of their authentic embodiment in the contemporary Church Langland knew. Moving from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas...

...Nicolette Zeeman The use of debate in Piers Plowman and Dives and Pauper is a response to a long-standing conversionary challenge faced by pastoral carers: the social and psychological variety of the flock—“lay multiplicity.” Dives and Pauper represents this in the huge spectrum of Dives' questions...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; William Revere This article examines John Bunyan’s relationship to traditions of representing labor reaching back before the Reformation, from Piers Plowman and its imitators through to a range of “plowman” satires, complaints, and reformist dialogues in the sixteenth...

...Jim Knowles In setting the apologia of Piers Plowman in passus 5 of the C-text alongside Martin Luther's 1525 text De servo arbitrio and his earlier lectures on the Psalms, this essay moves across the Reformation divide to argue for continuities between these writers' treatments of the theological...

... in William Langland's Piers Plowman . Written in England from 1095 to 1098, Anselm's Cur Deus Homo is a work of faith seeking reasoned understanding. Anselm sought to show that the received doctrine of redemption in his church was a logical necessity if God was to save fallen humanity and bring them...

... for the place without order, as Conscience warns in passus 20 of Piers Plowman . There, the relationship between quotidian accounting and apocalyptic (in)numerability is explicit, since, as Conscience succinctly declares: “Hevene hath evene noumbre, and helle is withoute noumbre” [Heaven has even number...

... without denying the degree to which cause and sign slide into each other. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Catholic and Protestant repentance theology of penance speech-act analysis Piers Plowman Hamlet ...

... of Scripture to the liturgical life of the Church. It is why a late-fourteenth-century English poet can depict himself meeting Abraham “a Mydde-lentones Sonenday” when the Epistle lection for the day is Paul’s allegory of Abraham and his two sons (Piers Plowman C, XVIII.181–289; Gal. 4:22–31).16 So...

... is presented by William Langland’s depiction of the figure Truth, explicitly likened to a pope in the A- and B-Texts but not in the C-Text, who offers Piers Plowman and 320 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.2 / 2003 his helpers on the half-acre a pardon a pena et a culpa (A. VIII.1– 4...

.... The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1999) 2002. xxv, 1,043 pp. Paper $40.00. Wittig, Joseph S., ed. Piers Plowman: Concordance; Will’s Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better, and Do-best; A Lemmatized Analysis of the English Vocabulary...

...: edulium, edibles or foodstuffs. The Old French-­derived word is so glossed in the marginalia of a B-­text of Piers Plowman (ca. 1400), in Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 581, and the Old English-­derived word is so glossed in a Latin-­English Nominale from Lord Londesborough’s library (ca. 1500).26...

... and More to the politics of Puritanism and its adversaries in Elizabeth's reign; from versions of “work” in Catholicism, Protestantism, and the Piers Plowman tradition to the theology of “service” in Luther and Langland; and mortalism from Luther to Milton. Over ten years after this issue...

... that the representations of Salome and Thomas in the N-­Town and Chester plays complicate the relationship between two modes of knowledge: clergie or male clerical learning, on the one hand, and what Piers Plowman s Ymaginatif calls kynde knowyng, knowledge derived from the senses.10 Kynde knowyng might be usefully...

... of the saeculum, an attempt to lay bare the nervous system of the present age.2 The play con- cerns itself not with the spiritual order of a total society, as a poem such as Piers Plowman does, but with the contained institutional order of a royal court. The protagonist of this play is not an everyman...

... / 2013 does much the same in his Reson and Sensualyte, while Passus XVIII of Piers Plowman recounts the growth of grace.64 In both Rolle’s and Wycliffite para- phrases of scripture and poems, grace is quantified and increased, especially “gracis of helþes.”65 Lydgate worries about the voiding away...

... without prior assumptions about authorship. Donaldson later declared that he couldn’t construct the texts without such assump- tions.24 The practice of the Athlone edition of Piers Plowman is correspond- ingly circular. Kane and Donaldson constructed their text on the basis of understandings about...

... institutions of Roman Catholicism, together with his call for the institutional church to return to apostolic poverty, destabilized fourteenth-­century English Catholi- cism and gave rise to the anticlerical Lollard movement. William Langland’s Piers Plowman, John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and the play...