Medievalists.net » Piers Plowman http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 INTERVIEW: A Conversation with SD Sykes about Plague Land http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:20:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53019 My interview with fiction author, SD Sykes about her fantastic medieval crime novel, Plague Land.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/feed/ 0 Corruption at Court? Crisis and the theme of Luxuria in England and France, c. 1340-1422 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/16/corruption-at-court-crisis-and-the-theme-of-luxuria-in-england-and-france-c-1340-1422/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/16/corruption-at-court-crisis-and-the-theme-of-luxuria-in-england-and-france-c-1340-1422/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:54:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46708 Why was the behaviour of courtiers such a concern in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries? Historians often take contemporary remarks about the excesses of the court and the immorality of its members as simple observations of fact.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/16/corruption-at-court-crisis-and-the-theme-of-luxuria-in-england-and-france-c-1340-1422/feed/ 0 The Impact of Climate Change on Late Medieval English Culture http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:48:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38344 This thesis challenges the extremes of both environmental determinism and the modernist perspective that humanity exists in social and/or cultural isolation from the natural environment.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/feed/ 0 The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-virtuous-pagan-in-middle-english-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-virtuous-pagan-in-middle-english-literature/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:49:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35672 From the first through the fourteenth centuries, a succession of solutions to the problem of these virtuous pagans evolved. For the Early Church, an attractive solution was that Christ descended into Hell to convert the souls he found there.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-virtuous-pagan-in-middle-english-literature/feed/ 0 Love, Labor, Liturgy: Languages of Service in Late Medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/14/love-labor-liturgy-languages-of-service-in-late-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/14/love-labor-liturgy-languages-of-service-in-late-medieval-england/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:48:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31030 Working with three major Middle English texts - William Langland's Piers Plowman, Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - my thesis argues that the languages of service available to these writers provided them with a rich set of metaphorical tools for expressing the relation between metaphysics and social practice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/14/love-labor-liturgy-languages-of-service-in-late-medieval-england/feed/ 0 The Economics of Lady Mede’s Agency in The Vision of Piers the Plowman http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/31/the-economics-of-lady-medes-agency-in-the-vision-of-piers-the-plowman/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/31/the-economics-of-lady-medes-agency-in-the-vision-of-piers-the-plowman/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:26:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30669 This paper will argue that rather than being controlled by the process of sexual commodification Lady Mede uses the correlation of gender, money, and sex to counter Conscience’s attempts to discount her place in the court and, in so doing, her agency.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/31/the-economics-of-lady-medes-agency-in-the-vision-of-piers-the-plowman/feed/ 0 Models of Winning in the B-text of Piers Plowman and Wynnere and Wastoure http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/models-of-winning-in-the-b-text-of-piers-plowman-and-wynnere-and-wastoure/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/models-of-winning-in-the-b-text-of-piers-plowman-and-wynnere-and-wastoure/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:55:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17556 Models of Winning in the B-text of Piers Plowman andWynnere and Wastoure Roberts, Ruth R. Marginalia, Vol. 4, (2005-2006) Cambridge Yearbook Abstract In Passus III of Piers Plowman, Conscience proposes two separate categories of reward: God’s gift to men, and the corruptible transactions of the world. His division of ‘mede’ implies material gain is inherently […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/models-of-winning-in-the-b-text-of-piers-plowman-and-wynnere-and-wastoure/feed/ 0 The Curse of the Plowman http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/29/the-curse-of-the-plowman/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/29/the-curse-of-the-plowman/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:15:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=13036 Among the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales is only one bona fide peasant — the Plowman, who merits one of Chaucer’s briefest and most idealized portraits and whose tale Chaucer never wrote

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