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Public Piers Plowman: Modem Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture

by C. David Benson

ISBN13: 9780271024752
ISBN10: 0271024755
Condition: Standard
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In "Public Piers Plowman, Benson returns the poem to the center of late medieval English culture by treating it as a public rather than a personal or elite work. In the process, Benson makes this great poem seem accessible, exciting, and necessary to modern readers.

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ISBN:: 9780271024752
Subtitle:: Modem Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture
Author:: Benson, C. David
Publisher:: Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Medieval
Publication Date:: March 2005
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 283
Dimensions:: 904x658x88 100

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