The Lost History of Piers Plowman: The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work

by Lawrence Warner

Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" engages with these questions to bring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242750
• ISBN13: 9780812242751
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"