Langland and the Rokele family
Subtitle: the gentry background to Piers Plowman
By: Robert Adams
Series: Dublin studies in medieval and renaissance literature -- 6; Dublin studies in medieval and renaissance literature -- 6.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781846823817
Subjects: Family; English literature; History and criticism
Description: The social and political opinions of the author of 'Piers Plowman' derive from, and reflect, a personal background significantly different from that of Chaucer, Gower or the Pearl-poet. This book illuminates that evidence, mainly by supplying some hitherto neglected facts about Langland's extended family, the Rokeles, and their prominent public role in his own time as well as in the generations that preceded his birth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.