Piers's Pardon and Langland's Semi-Pelagianism
’Hold there!’ said he. ’One must be a theologian to see the point of this question. The difference is so subtle, that it is with some difficulty we can discern it ourselves — you will find it rather too much for your powers of comprehension. Pascal, The Provincial Letters I. Virtually all who have w...
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Cambridge University Press
1983
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Traditio
Year: 1983, Volume: 39, Pages: 367-418 |
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| Summary: | ’Hold there!’ said he. ’One must be a theologian to see the point of this question. The difference is so subtle, that it is with some difficulty we can discern it ourselves — you will find it rather too much for your powers of comprehension. Pascal, The Provincial Letters I. Virtually all who have written on Piers Plowman B agree that one's interpretation of the pardon in Passus 7 is central to one's understanding of the entire poem. Unfortunately, no similar agreement prevails concerning the details of the scene or its general significance, a fact we might infer from the widely discrepant interpretations of the entire poem's subject and outlook. Nevertheless, most who have written on the subject of the pardon may be grouped into one of two categories, depending on their assessment of the episode's general rhetorical slant. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S036215290000965X |