Piers Plowman: The Three Versions. Volume III: The C Version

by William Langland

This definitive and long-awaited edition of the C Version of Piers Plowman now joins the California editions of the A and B Versions to complete the set of Piers Plowman texts prepared under the general editorship of George Kane. Piers Plowman is the single most important Middle English poem, with the exception of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . The forty-eight extant manuscripts of the poem are classified in three main versions: A, the earliest, written...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520210581
• ISBN13: 9780520210585
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 714 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"