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The Idea of Universal Salvation in Piers Plowman B and C
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 257–281.
Published: 01 May 2009
... 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...
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The Formation of Forgiveness in Piers Plowman
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 273–297.
Published: 01 May 2010
...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...
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Transforming Work: Protestantism and the Piers Plowman Tradition
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2010
...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...
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Liberum Arbitrium, Evangelism, and the Question of Belief in Piers Plowman
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 213–245.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Kate Crassons This essay argues that the pro-evangelical discourse put forward by the figure of Liberum Arbitrium in William Langland's Piers Plowman ultimately betrays the impracticality of its own ideals, not only by exposing the failures and inadequacies of the medieval clergy but also...
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Pastoral Care by Debate: The Challenge of Lay Multiplicity
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (3): 435–459.
Published: 01 September 2018
...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...
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The Conditions of Mercy: Bunyan, Labor, and the Literal Sense
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2020
...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...
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Langland on the Church and the End of the Cardinal Virtues
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 59–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
...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...
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Can You Serve? The Theology of Service from Langland to Luther
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 527–557.
Published: 01 September 2010
...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...
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The Giant's Faction: Spenser, Heywood, and the Mid-Tudor Crisis
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 335–371.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Heywood sides with a small-producing
plowman and a humanist philosopher against a knight and a merchant.
Late Tudor “aristo-capitalism” integrated an imperial and capitalist aristoc-
racy with its non-noble functionaries and the laborers they aimed to exploit
more systematically, leaving little...
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Calvinist Versions of God: A Revolution in Medieval Tradition
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 445–482.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 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...
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The Apocalyptic Aesthetics of the List: Form and Political Economy in Wynnere and Wastoure
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... Cole similarly observes in Piers Plowman the ways in which the list at the end of the prologue concludes abruptly as “a stopping that only reminds one of the potential to list more” (“Scribal Hermeneutics,” 185). 22 Goody, Domestication of the Savage Mind , 81. 23 Walter J. Ong...
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New Historicism and the Eucharist
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 241–259.
Published: 01 May 2003
... Plowman provides a traditional
representation of the relations between Christ, Church, and sacraments.
Christ carries the dreadfully wounded, immobile humanity, semyuief, into
the Church which he endows with the sacraments. Unless the wounded per-
son receives these, he will not live. The sacraments...
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Claudius and the Robber Apologize: The Variety of Speech Act in Protestant and Catholic Repentance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (3): 461–489.
Published: 01 September 2018
... 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 ...
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Medieval Corporeality and the Eucharistic Body in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 629–651.
Published: 01 September 2016
...: 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...
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Reclaiming the Pardoners
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 311–334.
Published: 01 May 2003
... 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...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 179–208.
Published: 01 January 2003
.... 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 407–413.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 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...
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Handling Knowledge: Holy Bodies in the Middle English Mystery Plays
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 May 2017
... 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...
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The Bowge of Courte and the Afterlives of Allegory
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2011
... 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...
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The Physics of Holy Oats: Vernacular Knowledge, Qualities, and Remedy in Fifteenth-Century England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 May 2013
... / 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...
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