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Jeanne Krochalis and Edward Peters, trans. 
The World of Piers Plowman.
Pennsylvania U.P., 1975.
The Middle Ages series.
ISBN 0812210859.
Paperback, stitch bound.
138x203x17mm.
xxi,265pp. 
English; Middle English texts given in original spelling, most others in modern English translation.
Covers grubby and page edges foxed, otherwise generally good condition (spine uncreased). 

This item £6.00 
[Publisher's price $19.95/£13.00]
345g. 

A useful collection of texts illustrating the cultural, and especially the religious background to Middle English literature (not just Piers Plowman). Organised under the headings: Macrocosm & microcosm; Abuses in the Church & the world; The voice of the preacher & the heretic; Moral & miracle - the saint's life & the exemplum; Instruction & action; Paysage moralisée; This is the way the world ends. 

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