The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5: C Passūs 2-22; B Passūs 18-2

by Stephen A. Barney

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.

The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239210
• ISBN13: 9780812239218
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"