02211nam a22003498i 4500 CR9781107338821 UkCbUP 20170608110003.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 130220s2014||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d 9781107338821 (ebook) 9781107043633 (hardback) 9781107665514 (paperback) UkCbUP eng rda UkCbUP PR2015 .W37 2014 821/.1 23 Warner, Lawrence, author. The Myth of Piers Plowman : Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive / Lawrence Warner. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; 89 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2017). Open Access title. Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem and contextualizes its first modernization. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched. Print version: 9781107043633 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; 89. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338821 204468 204468