From Lawmen to Plowmen : Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland.

By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland's Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.

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Author / Creator: Yeager, Stephen.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
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