Public Piers Plowman
Subtitle: modern scholarship and late medieval English culture
By: C. David Benson.
Publisher: Pensylvania State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Langland, William, 1330?-1400?; Literature and history -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; Art and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-270) and index.
Table of contents: value: The history of the Langland myth; value: Beyond the myth of the poem : is there a test in these manuscripts?; value: Beyond the myth of the poet : looking for the Langland in all the wrong places; value: Public writing : Mandeville's travels and the book of Margery Kempe; value: Public art : parish wall paintings; value: Public life : London civic practices.