Piers Plowman (NCE)

Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Reading Middle English xvii Reading Langland's Alliterative Verse xxi Notes on the Middle English Texts xxii Note on the Translation xxiii Using This Edition xxiv Abbreviations xxvii The Text of Piers Plowman 1(366) Prologue 2(12) Passus I 14(10) Passus II 24(12) Passus III 36(18) Passus IV 54(8) Passus V 62(34) Passus VI 96(16) Passus VII 112(10) Passus VIII 122(6) Passus IX 128(12) Passus X 140(24) Passus XI 164(22) Passus XII 186(14) Passus XIII 200(22) Passus XIV 222(18) Passus XV 240(32) Passus XVI 272(14) Passus XVII 286(16) Passus XVIII 302(20) Passus XIX 322(22) Passus XX 344(19) Appendix: The ``Autobiographical'' Passage from the C-Version 363(4) Sources and Backgrounds 367(260) Scriptural And Religious 369(46) From the Douai Bible 369(1) Moses and the Ten Commandments 369(1) Psalm 22 370(1) The Good Samaritan 370(1) Paul's Allegory of Abraham 371(1) The Whore of Babylon 372(1) The Athanasian Creed 373(2) From the Gospel of Nicodemus 375(1) [The Harrowing of Hell] 375(5) From Fasciculus Morum 380(1) Envy and Bread 380(1) From Pearl 381(7) Julian of Norwich From A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich 388(6) Margery Kempe From The Book of Margery Kempe 394(6) Walter Hilton Epistle on the Mixed Life 400(5) From The Abbey of the Holy Ghost 405(4) From The Castle of Love 409(6) Legends of the Virtuous Heathen 415(12) From John Trevisa's Translation of Polychronicon 415(1) [Aigolandus Rejects Christendom] 415(1) From The Golden Legend translated William Caxton The Story of Trajan 416(1) From The Examination of William Thorpe 417(3) Guild Ordinances of St. Peter's Church, Cornhill 420(4) Kepe well x, and flee fro vii 424(1) Mesure 424(3) Political And Historical 427(1) The Plague, 1348-1349 427(1) Thomas of Walsingham On the Great Mortality in England, Now Called the ``First Pestilence'' 427(1) Robert of Avesbury On the General Pestilence in England 427(1) Statutes of the Realm 428(3) The Statute of Laborers, 1349 428(2) The Statute of Pleading, 1362 430(1) Shorter Poems 431(5) Pees maketh plente 431(1) Bissop lorles 431(1) Vertues and good lyvinge is cleped ypocrisie 431(1) God Kepe the Kyng, and Save the Croune 432(4) Plowman Poems 436(10) I-blessyd be Cristes sonde 436(1) God Spede the Plough 437(2) London Lyckpeny 439(4) From Symonye and Covetise 443(3) Longer Poems 446(40) From Wynnere and Wastoure 446(7) Geoffrey Chaucer From The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales 453(10) From Richard the Redeless 463(5) From Pierce the Ploughman's Crede 468(9) From Mankind 477(7) The Letter of John Ball, Sent to the Commons of Essex 484(1) From the Chronicon Angliae 485(1) [Alice Ferrers and Edward III] 485(1) The Crowning of a King 486(2) Thomas of Walsingham From the Historia Anglicana 486(1) [The Coronation of Richard II, July 16, 1377] 486(1) From The Maner and the Forme of the Coronacioun of Kyngis and Quenes of Engelonde 487(1) [The King's Coronation Oaths] 487(1) Thomas Brinton, Bishop of Rochester Sermon 69 488(1) [The Parliament of the Mice and Rats] 488(1) The Case of the Earl of Devonshire 489(138) Esturmy versus Courtenay, 1392 489(6) Criticism [Summary of the Poem] (1986) 495(8) E. Talbot Donaldson [A Renaissance Reader's Response (1550) 503(1) Robert Crowley [On Langland's ``Intellectual Imagination''] (1936) 504(1) C. S. Lewis From Piers Plowman and the Scheme of Salvation (1957) 505(2) Robert Worth Frank From Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse (1961) 507(3) Morton Bloomfield From The Locus of Action in Medieval Narrative (1963) 510(1) Charles Muscatine [Who Is William Langland?] (1965) 511(3) George Kane Allegory and Realism and the Figural Approach to Reality (1969) 514(8) Elizabeth Saker Derek Pearsall The Character of Conscience in Piers Plowman (1970) 522(11) Mary C. Schroeder Eating and Drinking in Piers Plowman (1979) 533(11) Jill Mann From The Theme of Government in Piers Plowman (1981) 544(1) Anna Baldwin The Action of Langland's Second Vision (1984) 545(11) John Burrow From Community, Gender, and Individual Identity (1988) 556(7) David Aers Poverty and Poor People in Piers Plowman (1988) 563(9) Derek Pearsall [Kynde Name] (1989) 572(12) Anne Middleton From Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (1990) 584(7) James Simpson [Dating the A, B, and C Versions] (1993) 591(5) Ralph Hanna III Piers Plowman and Parish Wall Paintings (1997) 596(16) C. David Benson The Place of God in Piers Plowman (2001) 612(4) Mary Clemente Davlin ``What is this womman?'' Langland on Women and Gender (2003) 616(11) Elizabeth D. Kirk Gloss 627(8) Selected Bibliography 635