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Piers Plowman : The A Version by William Langland, Michael Calabrese, John Burrow, Thorlac Turville-Petre is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Piers Plowman : The A Version about?

Passionate about trying to create social justice in a time of crisis after the Black Plague, William Langland spent his entire life working on Piers Plowman, an epic study of the human quest for truth, justice, and community. The “A Version,” the first and shortest of the three versions he crafted, is wonderfully relatable and completely teachable to a modern student audience. Piers Plowman is becoming ever more relevant to students and scholars in English studies. Perhaps because the poem involves culture, religion, community, and work and engages explicitly with the histories of government and popular revolt, this allegorical tale of a wandering Christian named “Will,” searching for truth with the aid of a humble plowman named Piers, has found new critical and pedagogic life in the last 20 years. Currently there are no translations of the A-version of Piers Plowman in print, so readers, scholars and teachers have been longing for an affordable, student-centered translation. The apparatus includes a 30-page historical and critical introduction, footnotes, a bibliography, a note on translation theory and practice, and samplings of the original text in Middle English, with a guide t

Who reads Piers Plowman : The A Version?

Author

William Langland, Michael Calabrese, John Burrow, Thorlac Turville-Petre

Publisher

The Catholic University of America Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813233444

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Western, Poetry