Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature

by Rebecca Davis

Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. These concerns converge in the poem's rich vocabulary of kynde, the familiar Middle English word for nature, broadly construed. But in a remarkable coinage, Langland also uses kynde to name nature's creator, who appears as a character in Piers Plowman. The stakes of this representation could...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198778406
• ISBN13: 9780198778400
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.8"