Poverty in late Middle English literature

The laity, the church and the mystery plays

A drama of belonging

Tony Corbett

With a Foreword by Dame Judi Dench.

Over the course of more than two hundred and fifty years, from the fourteenth century until well after the Reformation had …

Chaucer's Poetry

Words, authority and ethics

Clíodhna Carney & Frances McCormack, editors

This book reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on the poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to …

Langland and the Rokele family

The gentry background to 'Piers Plowman'

Robert Adams

The social and political opinions of the author of Piers Plowman derive from, and reflect, a personal background significantly different from that of Chaucer, G…

Piers Plowman and the Poor

Anne M. Scott

This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of medieval literature in general, and Piers Plowman in particular, as well as to cultural historians of …