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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ;
17. |
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Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781442696167 1442696168 |