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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.
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ESSAYS
Allegory on the Half-Acre: The Demands of History by Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith
Will and the Law of Property in Piers Plowman by Louise M. Bishop
The Hermeneutics of Supersession: The Revision of the Jews from the B to the C text of Piers Plowman by Elisa Narin Van Court
Piers Plowman and the Gospel and First Epistle of John by Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P.
Jesus the Jouster: The Christ-Knight and Medieval Theories of Atonement in Piers Plowman and the “Round Table” Sermons by Lawrence Warner
A Reply to Jill Mann, Reaffirming the Traditional Relation between the A and B Versions of Piers Plowman by Traugott Lawler
FORUM
Langland’s Troianus by Siegfried Wenzel
A Response to Wendy Scase on Langland and Literacy by Hugh White
REVIEWS
Robert R. Edwards, ed., Art and Context in Late Medieval Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. by Ruth Morse
Allen J. Frantzen and Douglas Moffat, editors, The Work of Work: Servitude, Slavery, and Labor in Medieval England by Christopher Dyer
C.W. Marx, The Devil’s Rights and the Redemption in the Literature of Medieval England by Denise N. Baker
A. V. C. Schmidt, ed., Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C, and Z Versions by Robert Adams
M. Teresa Tavormina, Kindly Similitude: Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman by Anna Baldwin
ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY by Vincent DiMarco
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