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Piers Plowman - The A Version, Revised Edition: William Langland, Michael Calabrese Piers Plowman - The A Version, Revised Edition
William Langland, Michael Calabrese
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Passionate about trying to create social justice in a time of crisis after the Black Plague, William Langland spent his entire life working on Piers Plowman, an epic study of the human quest for truth, justice, and community. The ""A Version,"" the first and shortest of the three versions he crafted, is wonderfully relatable and completely teachable to a modern student audience. Piers Plowman is becoming ever more relevant to students and scholars in English studies. Perhaps because the poem involves culture, religion, community, and work and engages explicitly with the histories of government and popular revolt, this allegorical tale of a wandering Christian named ""Will,"" searching for truth with the aid of a humble plowman named Piers, has found new critical and pedagogic life in the last 20 years. Currently there are no translations of the A-version of Piers Plowman in print, so readers, scholars and teachers have been longing for an affordable, student-centered translation. The apparatus includes a 30-page historical and critical introduction, footnotes, a bibliography, a note on translation theory and practice, and samplings of the original text in Middle English, with a guide to pronunciation of that language. Piers Plowman is an extraordinary important document about the issues dramatically relevant to this day. It confronts poverty and inequity in 14th-century England and explores the need for virtue and social justice, encouraging its readers to create equality with open access for people of all classes and abilities. Though a Christian poem, Piers addresses issues of inclusivity, social responsibility and communal duty, as the poem's protagonist wanders about the world, facing injustice and persecution as he looks for truth and salvation. Michael Calabrese, author of An Introduction to Piers Plowman and director of the Chaucer Studio's Middle English recording of the poem, brings Piers Plowman to life for 21st-century students and for all readers interested in the history of society, virtue, faith and salvation.

Piers the Ploughman (Paperback, Revised Ed): William Langland Piers the Ploughman (Paperback, Revised Ed)
William Langland; Introduction by J. Goodridge; Translated by J. Goodridge
R400 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R75 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Piers the Plowman and Richard the Redeless - Volume I: Text: William Langland, Walter W. Skeat Piers the Plowman and Richard the Redeless - Volume I: Text
William Langland, Walter W. Skeat
R1,745 R1,654 Discovery Miles 16 540 Save R91 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Langland's Vision Of Piers The Plowman - An English Poem Of The Fourteenth Century, Done Into Modern Prose (Hardcover):... Langland's Vision Of Piers The Plowman - An English Poem Of The Fourteenth Century, Done Into Modern Prose (Hardcover)
William Langland
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Langland's Vision Of Piers The Plowman - An English Poem Of The Fourteenth Century, Done Into Modern Prose (Paperback):... Langland's Vision Of Piers The Plowman - An English Poem Of The Fourteenth Century, Done Into Modern Prose (Paperback)
William Langland
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (Hardcover): William Langland The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (Hardcover)
William Langland
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (Paperback): William Langland The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (Paperback)
William Langland
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Parallel Extracts From Twenty-nine Manuscripts of Piers Plowman - With Comments, and a Proposal for T: Walter William Skeat... Parallel Extracts From Twenty-nine Manuscripts of Piers Plowman - With Comments, and a Proposal for T
Walter William Skeat William Langland
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Parallel Extracts From Twenty-nine Manuscripts of Piers Plowman - With Comments, and a Proposal for T: Walter William Skeat... Parallel Extracts From Twenty-nine Manuscripts of Piers Plowman - With Comments, and a Proposal for T
Walter William Skeat William Langland
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision Of Piers The Plowman (Hardcover): William Langland The Vision Of Piers The Plowman (Hardcover)
William Langland
R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision Of Piers The Plowman (Paperback): William Langland The Vision Of Piers The Plowman (Paperback)
William Langland
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Piers the Ploughman (Hardcover): William Allan Neilson, William Langland, Kenneth Grant... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Piers the Ploughman (Hardcover)
William Allan Neilson, William Langland, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman - Part. III. (Hardcover): Walter William Skeat, William Langland The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman - Part. III. (Hardcover)
Walter William Skeat, William Langland
R3,069 R2,846 Discovery Miles 28 460 Save R223 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Piers the Ploughman's Crede (Hardcover): William Langland Piers the Ploughman's Crede (Hardcover)
William Langland
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest - Part 1 (Paperback): William... The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest - Part 1 (Paperback)
William Langland
R1,187 Discovery Miles 11 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest - Part 1 (Hardcover): William... The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest - Part 1 (Hardcover)
William Langland
R1,760 R1,655 Discovery Miles 16 550 Save R105 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Piers the Ploughman: William Allan Neilson, William Langland, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Piers the Ploughman
William Allan Neilson, William Langland, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster
R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Piers the Ploughman's Crede (Paperback): William Langland Piers the Ploughman's Crede (Paperback)
William Langland
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman - Part. III. (Paperback): Walter William Skeat, William Langland The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman - Part. III. (Paperback)
Walter William Skeat, William Langland
R2,537 R2,362 Discovery Miles 23 620 Save R175 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Piers Plowman - An Alliterative Verse Translation (Paperback): William Langland Piers Plowman - An Alliterative Verse Translation (Paperback)
William Langland; Edited by Judith H. Anderson, Elizabeth D. Kirk; Translated by E. Talbot Donaldson
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Out of stock

A translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.

The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume II of II (Hardcover): William Langland The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume II of II (Hardcover)
William Langland
R2,479 R2,311 Discovery Miles 23 110 Save R168 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume I of II (Paperback): William Langland The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume I of II (Paperback)
William Langland
R1,685 R1,588 Discovery Miles 15 880 Save R97 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume II of II (Paperback): William Langland The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume II of II (Paperback)
William Langland
R1,954 R1,833 Discovery Miles 18 330 Save R121 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Piers Plowman (Paperback, Critical edition): William Langland Piers Plowman (Paperback, Critical edition)
William Langland; Edited by Elizabeth Robertson, Stephen H.A. Shepherd
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Out of stock

Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland s iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot Donaldson s translation of the text has been selected for this Norton Critical Edition because of its skillful emulation of the original poem s distinct alliterative verse. Selections of the authoritative Middle English text are also included for comparative analysis. "Sources and Backgrounds" includes a large collection of contemporary religious and historical documents pertaining to the poem, including selections from the Douai Bible, accounts of the plague, and legal statutes. "Criticism" includes twenty interpretive essays by leading medievalists, among them E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane, Jill Mann, Derek Pearsall, C. David Benson, and Elizabeth D. Kirk. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included."

The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman - Vol. IV (Paperback): William Langland, Walter W. Skeat The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman - Vol. IV (Paperback)
William Langland, Walter W. Skeat
R1,313 Discovery Miles 13 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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