'Piers Plowman,' Diversity, and the Medieval Political Aesthetic
- Author / Editor
- Steiner, Emily.
'Piers Plowman,' Diversity, and the Medieval Political Aesthetic
- Published
- Representations 91 (2005): 1-25.
- Description
- Assesses the political character of late medieval English poetry, arguing that it extends the political thinking found in contemporary legal writing. Focuses on the notion of "diversity" in "Piers Plowman" and other alliterative verse as an extension of Continental legal thought and explores contrasts between Langland's "field of folk" and Chaucer's "sundry folk" in GP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.