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From lawmen to plowmen : Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the School of Langland / Stephen M. Yeager.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- 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.
- Law and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Law and literature.
- Religion and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Religion and literature.
- Alliteration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- From written record to memory : a brief history of Anglo-Saxon legal-homiletic discourse
- Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi : homily, law, and the legacy of Wulfstan
- Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in thirteenth-century Worcester : The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred
- La[y]amon's Brut : law, literature, and the chronicle-poem
- Defining the Piers Plowman tradition
- Documents, dreams and the Langlandian legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9617-6
- 1-4426-9616-8
- OCLC:
- 898086004
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