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Product Description: William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises...read more
By Peter Sutton (trans)

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9780786495030 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 6, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today.
9780373582242, titled "The Price of Glory" | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | also contains The Price of Glory

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Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed. They focus largely upon the texts of Chaucer and Langland and demonstrate in an exemplary way how critical issues can arise from meticulous textual study.

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9781472508430 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 2, 2014, cover price $128.00
9780520063167 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed.

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9781403965172 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2007, cover price $115.00

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Product Description: William Langland's poem Piers Plowman is one of the most popular and widely-studied Middle English works. This comprehensive, readable guide leads the student chronologically through the entire text and is designed to be read alongside it...read more

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9780230507159 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 26, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: William Langland's poem Piers Plowman is one of the most popular and widely-studied Middle English works.

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Product Description: William Langland's poem Piers Plowman is one of the most popular and widely-studied Middle English works. This comprehensive, readable guide leads the student chronologically through the entire text and is designed to be read alongside it...read more

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9780230507142 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 26, 2007, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: William Langland's poem Piers Plowman is one of the most popular and widely-studied Middle English works.

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Product Description: The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars. This book is an account of the editions of the poem that have appeared since 1550, when it was first published by the protestant reformer Robert Crowley...read more

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9780521342506 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $159.99 | About this edition: The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars.

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9780521024020 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2006), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars.

Product Description: A mostly theoretical and philosophical examination of the concept of beginnings in medieval literature, notably in Piers Plowman , as well as grammar, rhetoric, physics, theology and genealogy. Smith focuses on the ways in which texts begin and how the initiative of beginning, heralded as a call for action, is maintained...read more

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9780816637607 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A mostly theoretical and philosophical examination of the concept of beginnings in medieval literature, notably in Piers Plowman , as well as grammar, rhetoric, physics, theology and genealogy.

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9780816637614 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: A mostly theoretical and philosophical examination of the concept of beginnings in medieval literature, notably in Piers Plowman , as well as grammar, rhetoric, physics, theology and genealogy.

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Product Description: The Charters of Christ seek to prove human salvation by closely imitating the form and language of feudal grants of land. Their use of Latin, Middle English, and pictorial elements makes them accessible to a variety of audiences. In Piers Plowman, on the other hand, charters may appear to grant pardon or salvation, but in the end they fail to provide real assurance...read more

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9780820440064 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The Charters of Christ seek to prove human salvation by closely imitating the form and language of feudal grants of land.

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Product Description: Chamberlin's focal point for this synthesis is the concept of ambiguity, which has played an important role in the liberal arts tradition and in medieval discourses regarding reading and preaching - discourses that are fundamental to Langland's poetic ways with words...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780773520738 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Chamberlin's focal point for this synthesis is the concept of ambiguity, which has played an important role in the liberal arts tradition and in medieval discourses regarding reading and preaching - discourses that are fundamental to Langland's poetic ways with words.

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Product Description: This is the B-version of Piers Plowman, probably the only version authorized by Langland. This catalogue of the 18 extant manuscripts, now located in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Tokyo and California, offers both individual manuscript descriptions and a record of the annotations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By C. David Benson (editor) and Lynne S. Blanchfield (editor)

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9780859915014 | Ds Brewer, January 1, 1998, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This is the B-version of Piers Plowman, probably the only version authorized by Langland.

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9781843841852 | Ds Brewer, December 18, 1997, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The B-version of 'Piers Plowman', perhaps the only version authorised by Langland, is the one most frequently read today, and the most influential form of the poem.

By Steven Justice (editor) and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (editor)

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9780812233964 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $55.00

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Product Description: "William Langland's Piers Plowman ranks, with the works of Chaucer and the Gawain poet, among the most engaging to emerge from that extraordinary flowering of Middle English literature in the second half of the fourteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780805770384 | Twayne Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: "William Langland's Piers Plowman ranks, with the works of Chaucer and the Gawain poet, among the most engaging to emerge from that extraordinary flowering of Middle English literature in the second half of the fourteenth century.

Presents a translation of the poet's third version of the text (view table of contents)

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9780812233230 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: Presents a translation of the poet's third version of the text

This study argues that Langland did not write Piers Plowman in order to teach or preach. Instead, it is written as a journey during which Langland comes to understand and believe in Christ.

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9780802057990 | Univ of Toronto Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This study argues that Langland did not write Piers Plowman in order to teach or preach.

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9780802076557 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $23.00

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Product Description: The ten essays on this important literary text include works by John A. Alford, Linda J. Clifton, Eric C. Dahl, T. P. Dolan, Richard K. Emmerson, Elton D. Higgs, David Lawton, Priscilla Martin, Derek Pearsall, and Míceál F. Vaughn.
By David C. Fowler (editor) and Miceal T. Vaughan (editor)

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9780937191361 | Michigan State Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The ten essays on this important literary text include works by John A.

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9780860783824 | Variorum, July 1, 1993, cover price $40.00

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