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Book SynopsisFrom 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.
Table of ContentsC. David Benson, Piers Plowman and Parish Wall Paintings Roy J. Pearcy, Langland's Fair Field Wendy Scase, First to reckon Richard: John But's Piers Plowman and the Politics of Allegiance Edward Jones, Langland and Hermits Richard Firth Green, Friar William Appleton and the Date of Langland's B Text Sean Taylor, The Lost Revision of Piers Plowman B Carl Grindley, A New Fragment of the Piers Plowman C Text? Bryan P. Davis, The Rationale for a Copy of a Text: Constructing the Exemplar for British Library Additional MS. 10574 Tadahiro Ikegami, A Short History of Langland Studies in Japan Ruth Nisse, Reversing Discipline: The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, Lollard Exegesis, and the Failure of Representation FORUM D. Vance Smith, Samuel Overstreet's Response: Ad Objectiones REVIEWS David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture (Denise N. Baker) Helen Barr, Signes and Sothe: Language in the Piers Plowman Tradition (Britton J. Harwood) Charlotte Brewer, Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text (Sean Taylor) Edwin B. Dewindt, The Salt of Common Life. Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church. Essays Presented to H. Ambrose Rafti (Christopher Dyer) Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England (David C. Fowler) Richard G. Newhauser, and John A. Alford, ed., Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel (James Simpson) Sean Taylor, Annual Bibliography, 1996
