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

‘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)

• 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

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

‘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)

• 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

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

‘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)

• 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