The Myth of <I>Piers Plowman</I>: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

Lawrence Warner

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107338821

The Myth of Piers Plowman

The Myth of Piers Plowman

Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

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Lawrence Warner, King's College London

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781107338821
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338821
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-ND 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (89)

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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.

Winner, 2016 Beatrice White Prize, English Association

'A rollicking tale of how an entire field of study came to be created, or rather, fabricated … Warner's book is full of page-turning discoveries.'

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