From lawmen to plowmen Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2014] |
Series: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ;
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Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Summary: | 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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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-257) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781442696167 (online) 9781442696174 (online) |
Author Notes: | Stephen M. Yeager is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Concordia University. |