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Jeanne Krochalis and Edward Peters, trans.
The World of Piers Plowman.
Publisher: Pennsylvania U.P., 1975.
Series: The Middle Ages.
ISBN 0812210859.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Size: 138×203×17mm.
Page count: xxi,265pp.
Main languages: English; Middle English texts given in original spelling, most others in modern English translation.
Overall condition fair to good: covers grubby and page edges foxed, otherwise looks in reasonable order.

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This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price $19.95/£13.00]
Weight without packaging: 345g.

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A useful collection of texts illustrating the cultural, and especially the religious background to Middle English literature (not just Piers Plowman). Organised under the headings: Macrocosm & microcosm; Abuses in the Church & the world; The voice of the preacher & the heretic; Moral & miracle — the saint’s life & the exemplum; Instruction & action; Paysage moralisée; This is the way the world ends.

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