Songes of Rechelesnesse: Langland and the Franciscans

by Lawrence M. Clopper

William Langland's Piers Plowman provides a highly charged picture of England near the end of the fourteenth century, a time of political, religious, and moral crises. The period in which Langland wrote was volatile and full of colorful and contentious people: Edward III, Richard II, Chaucer, Wyclif--and Langland. In "Songes of Rechelesnesse," Lawrence M. Clopper presents the voice of this powerful disputant who lived in a period marked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472107445
• ISBN13: 9780472107445
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"