Piers Plowman: C-Text (Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies): An edition of the C-text (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Softcover

William Langland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859894290 ISBN 13: 9780859894296

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 1994

Synopsis

This was the first complete edition of the C-text of Piers Plowman since that of Skeat (1886). It has been prepared with recognition of the complexity of the work, and also of its significance as a record of social and religious conflict and crises in a turbulent age. This edition has been updated and is replaced by 'Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text NEW EDITION by Derek Pearsall, published in 2008. ISBN 9780859897846

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Review:

"For the first time it is possible to see the C-text purged of scribal ineptitudes and arguably as Langland's maturest work ... The effect, at times, is that of the bright colours of a Renaissance painting emerging from under the dirt, varnish and academic pieties of generations." (English)

Synopsis:

This edition is the first complete edition of the C-text of "Piers Plowman" since that of Skeat (1886). It has been prepared with recognition of the complexity of the work, and also of its significance as a record of social and religious conflict and crises in a turbulent age.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0859894290
• ISBN 13: 9780859894296
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422
• Editor: Derek Pearsall