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From lawmen to plowmen : Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland / Stephen M. Yeager.
LIBRA PR317.A55 Y42 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeager, Stephen M., 1979- author.
- Series:
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 17.
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Versification.
- English language.
- English language--Middle English--Versification.
- Law and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Law and literature.
- Religion and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Religion and literature.
- Alliteration.
- English language--Versification.
- English poetry--Middle English.
- History.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 268 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse 18
- 2 Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan 60
- 3 Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester: The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred 99
- 4 Lazamon's Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem 121
- 5 Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition 150
- 6 Documents, Dreams, and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442643475
- 1442643471
- OCLC:
- 879120073
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