The England of Piers Plowman: William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century

By F.R.H. du Boulay

Professor Du Boulay's book is both a highly readable introduction to Langland's work and an original contribution to the history of religious thought. It rejects the view that Langland was primarily a political radical or a prophet of doom and sees him as both a great imaginative poet and a preacher of Christian charity. Writing in an age of intellectual subtlety and shifting social frontiers, Langland expressed deep anxieties yet offered to his fellow-Christians a way of interior repentance and practical love, guided by the enigmatic figure of Piers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913120
• ISBN13: 9780859913126
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"