{"product_id":"from-lawmen-to-plowmen-9781442643475","title":"From Lawmen to Plowmen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland'sPiers Plowmanand 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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  Bibliography","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408365461847,"sku":"9781442643475","price":47.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442643475.jpg?v=1730502666","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-lawmen-to-plowmen-9781442643475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}