RT Book
T1 Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late Middle Ages
A1 Thomas, Arvind 1972-
LA English
PP Toronto
PB University of Toronto Press
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1669742148
AB Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas argues that the poem's mobilization of juridical concepts not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists.
AB Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contritio Cordis: The Laughter of Mede and Tearlessness of Contricion -- 2 Dreams of Avarice: The Absent Presence of the Usury Prohibition -- 3 Restitutio: From Rule to Law to Justice in Covetise's Confession -- 4 Satisfactio Operis: Maxim and Metaphor in Wrong's Trial -- 5 Contritio Cordis, Confessio Oris, et Satisfactio Operis: From Symbol to Sign in Patience's Sermon -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
SN 9781487515386
K1 Langland, William
K1 Christian poetry, English (Middle)-History and criticism
K1 Electronic books