UID:
almafu_9961992415302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (281 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-9617-6
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1-4426-9616-8
Serie:
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 17
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
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.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4426-4347-1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.3138/9781442696167
