Format:
1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
ISBN:
9781442696167
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1442696168
Series Statement:
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series 17
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442643475
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1442643471
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Yeager, Stephen M., 1979- From lawmen to plowmen Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014] ISBN 9781442643475
Language:
English
