Isbn: 9781421401393 - piers plowman: the a version (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2011. First Edition. First printing, with correct number line, including the 1. A very fine book, issued without dust jacket. A tight copy, unread, without any marks or defects. Issued without dust jacket. Shipped in well padded box. Black cloth, full, gilt spine lettering, a small first printing in hardcover. 196 pages. A new edition of the fourteenth-century Piers Plowman, one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míċeál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and shorter version of this great work, accompanied by ample glossing of difficult Middle English words, an expansive introduction, textual notes, detailed endnotes, and a select bibliography. This is the first edition of the A version since Thomas A. Knott and David C. Fowler's celebrated 1952 publication. Based on an early-fifteenth-century manuscript from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, Vaughan is the first modern edition not to attribute the poem to William Langland. …