Page from the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, showing drolleries on the right margin and a ploughman at the bottom
Piers Plowman (written c. 1370–86; possibly c. 1377) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in un-rhymed, alliterative verse divided into sections called passus (Latin for "step").
Like the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages, preceding and even influencing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Piers Plowman contains the first known reference to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales.[1][2]
There exist three distinct versions of the poem, which scholars refer to as the A-, B-, and C-texts. The B-text is the most widely edited and translated version; it revises and extends the A-text by over four thousand lines.[3]
^Alfred Stapleton (1899). Robin Hood: the Question of His Existence Discussed, More Particularly from a Nottinghamshire Point of View. Sissons and son. pp. 17–.
^John Paul Davis (20 July 2016). Robin Hood: The Unknown Templar. Peter Owen Publishers. pp. 21–. ISBN 978-0-7206-1865-5.
^Simpson, James (2018). The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages (Tenth ed.). p. 388.
PiersPlowman (written c. 1370–86; possibly c. 1377) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of PiersPlowman) is a Middle English allegorical...
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devil, by which name riches are called according to the Syrian tongue." PiersPlowman also regards Mammon as a deity. Nicholas de Lyra, commenting on the...
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25 September 2016. Rudd, Gillian (1994). Managing Language in PiersPlowman. PiersPlowman studies. Boydell & Brewer. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-85991-392-8. Retrieved...
from courir , "to run". It was first recorded in 1377 in Langland's PiersPlowman "Fissch to lyue in þe flode..Þe corlue by kynde of þe eyre". In Europe...
Langland (c. 1377), "Passus XVIII", in Echmidt, A V C (ed.), The vision of PiersPlowman, London & Melbourne: Everyman (published 1984), line 14, ISBN 0-460-11571-5...
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of rats and mice was retold in William Langland's allegorical poem PiersPlowman. The episode is said to refer to the Parliament of 1376 which attempted...
2020. Retrieved April 15, 2020. Johnson, Barbara A. (1992). Reading PiersPlowman and The Pilgrim's Progress: Reception and the Protestant Reader. SIU...
clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem PiersPlowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards...
Middle English poem PiersPlowman and its textual and editing history. The poet appears to have produced several versions of PiersPlowman at different times...
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