This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims
to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the
ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can
be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining
the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta
families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to
reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow
and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as
corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version
Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the
B-text tradition.
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