num_pages: 292
description: The main aim of this book is to convince the reader of Piers Plowman's centrality in any account of the literary and cultural history of the later Middle Ages. It tries to demonstrate how the poem, despite being deeply anchored in a conservative literary, ecclesiastical and social culture, in fact questions that culture in moving towards positions of doubt and dissent, and in reimagining social and religious institutions.
language: English
title: Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text
titlecomplete: Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (Longman medieval and Renaissance library)
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Longman