Piers Plowman: An edition of the C-text (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Softcover

Langland, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859894290 ISBN 13: 9780859894296

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 1994

Synopsis

This edition is the first complete edition of the C-text of "Piers Plowman" since that of Skeat (1886). It has been prepared with recognition of the complexity of the work, and also of its significance as a record of social and religious conflict and crises in a turbulent age.

About this title

About the Author:

Derek Pearsall has been Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University since 1985. Formerly he was Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.

Review:

“...a fine edition which will make the C Version more accessible and comprehensible, and, I hope, more widely read.” –Review of English Studies

(Review of English Studies)

“...Pearsall gives a great deal of aid with the social and political context of Piers, ranging from straightforward explanation of personal allusions or glosses on the detail of fourteenth-century ecclesiastical organization to fruitful comment on the largest questions about Langland's society.” –English Language Notes

(English Language Notes)

“For the first time it is possible to see the C-text purged of scribal ineptitudes and arguably as Langland's maturest work ... The effect, at times, is that of the bright colours of a Renaissance painting emerging from under the dirt, varnish and academic pieties of generations.” –English (English)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0859894290
• ISBN 13: 9780859894296
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Pearsall Derek