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100 1 $aThomas, Arvind,$d1972-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPiers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late Middle Ages /$cArvind Thomas.
264 1 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c[2019]
264 4 $c©2019
300 $axiv, 267 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
520 $a"It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet's words and the lawyer's world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England's great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions' representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem's narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland's mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists."--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aLangland, William,$d1330?-1400?$tPiers Plowman$s(B-text)
600 10 $aLangland, William,$d1330?-1400?$tPiers Plowman$s(C-text)
650 0 $aCanon law in literature.
650 0 $aLaw, Medieval, in literature.
650 0 $aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism.
630 07 $aPiers Plowman (Langland, William)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01716084
650 7 $aCanon law in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00845938
650 7 $aChristian poetry, English (Middle)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00859417
650 7 $aLaw, Medieval, in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00994257
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
852 00 $bglx$hPR2017.L38$iT56 2019g