Earthly Honest Things Collected Essays on Piers Plowman - Schmidt, A. V. C. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)
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Earthly Honest Things brings together the complete shorter writings of a leading international authority on William Langland. Of A. V. C. Schmidt's recent two-volume Piers Plowman: A Parallel Text Edition, Derek Pearsall has said in Speculum that 'By any standards, it is a monumental achievement ... resolute, patient, deeply learned ... magisterial. ... Schmidt ... is always interesting and writes Other a controlled passion.' Lawrence Warner in The Medieval Review has called this edition 'nothing shor..
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Pt. 1. Traditions and contexts -- pt. 2. The words on the page -- pt. 3. Form, structure and imagery