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OverviewThe reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland's Piers Plowman and the flourishing of alliterative verse satires in late medieval England by observing the similarities between these satires and the legal-homiletical literature of the Anglo-Saxon era. Unlike Old English alliterative poetry, Anglo-Saxon legal texts and documents continued to be studied long after the Norman Conquest. 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. His conclusions establish a new genealogy for medieval England's vernacular literary tradition and offer a new way of approaching one of Middle English's literary classics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen YeagerPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781442643475ISBN 10: 1442643471 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 17 October 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse Chapter 2 Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan Chapter 3 Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester:The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred Chapter 4 La amon's Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem Chapter 5 Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition Chapter 6 Documents, Dreams and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger Conclusion BibliographyReviews'Yeager's literary-historical argument is powerful and marches on firmly to the fifteenth-century poems of the Piers Plowmen... It convincingly demonstrates the durability of certain Anglo-Saxon attitudes as they were annealed in the distinction of style.' -- Christopher Cannon Modern Philology, vol 113:03:2016 'This is an innovative, textually grounded inquiry into the connections between Old and Middle English literature.' -- M.B. Busbee Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015 'This is an innovative, textually grounded inquiry into the connections between Old and Middle English literature.' -- M.B. Busbee Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015 Author InformationStephen M. Yeager is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Concordia University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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