The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780859913126 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 176 str.

F.R.H.Du Boulay

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Professor Du Boulay's book is both a highly readable introduction to Langland's work and an original contribution to the history of religious thought. It rejects the view that Langland was primarily a political radical or a prophet of doom and sees him as both a great imaginative poet and a preacher of Christian charity. Writing in an age of intellectual subtlety and shifting social frontiers, Langland expressed deep anxieties yet offered to his fellow-Christians a way of interior repentance and practical love, guided by the enigmatic figure of Piers.