Langland and Two Scriptural Texts
That William Langland, perhaps best known for his observation of contemporary English life, existed also in a world of Biblical allusion is apparent to anyone who turns the pages of Piers Plowman. Furthermore, the notes of Skeat and the recent study of Robertson and Huppe have clearly shown that the...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1958
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Traditio
Year: 1958, Volume: 14, Pages: 385-398 |
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| Summary: | That William Langland, perhaps best known for his observation of contemporary English life, existed also in a world of Biblical allusion is apparent to anyone who turns the pages of Piers Plowman. Furthermore, the notes of Skeat and the recent study of Robertson and Huppe have clearly shown that the Biblical text reached Langland not directly, but surrounded by an accretion of commentary. Yet in relatively few cases is our knowledge sufficiently detailed to permit us to know with any degree of certainty the form or forms in which a given text reached Langland and the artistic purposes he made it serve. The present essay seeks to study in detail two Biblical texts - to show the evolution of the bodies of commentary with which Langland came into contact, and to examine the ways in which he adapted commentary, and on occasion even text, to fulfill his artistic intention. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900010187 |