TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warner,Lawrence
TI  - The Myth of Piers Plowman: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive 
T2  - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
SN  - 9781107338821 (ebook)
AV  - PR2015 .W37 2014
U1  - 821/.1 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2017); Open Access title
N2  - Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem and contextualizes its first modernization. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338821
ER  -