From Lawmen to Plowmen

Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland

AvStephen Yeager

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the flourishing of alliterative verse satires in late medieval England by observing the similarities between these satires and the legal-homiletical literature of the Anglo-Saxon era.Unlike Old English alliterative poetry, Anglo-Saxon legal texts and documents continued to be studied long after the Norman Conquest. By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland’s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. His conclusions establish a new genealogy for medieval England’s vernacular literary tradition and offer a new way of approaching one of Middle English’s literary classics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-17
Mått:163 x 236 x 27 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442643475

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Stephen M. Yeager is a professor of English at Concordia University.

Recensioner i media

‘This is an innovative, textually grounded inquiry into the connections between Old and Middle English literature.’- M.B. Busbee (Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015) ‘Yeager’s literary-historical argument is powerful and marches on firmly to the fifteenth-century poems of the Piers Plowmen… It convincingly demonstrates the durability of certain Anglo-Saxon attitudes as they were annealed in the distinction of style.’- Christopher Cannon (Modern Philology, vol 113:03:2016)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic DiscourseChapter 2Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of WulfstanChapter 3Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester:The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of AlfredChapter 4Laȝamon’s Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-PoemChapter 5Defining the Piers Plowman TraditionChapter 6Documents, Dreams and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the SothseggerConclusionBibliography