From lawmen to plowmen : Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland /

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.

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Main Author: Yeager, Stephen M., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
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ISBN:9781442696167
1442696168
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central