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'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 59)
  • 'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 59)
  • 'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 59)
'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 59)

'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 59)

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Brand: Cambridge University Press

Author: Zeeman, Nicolette

Features:

  • Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 328

EAN: 9780521856102

Release Date: 15-05-2006

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches

Details: This ambitious work links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Nicolette Zeeman traces the history of psychology and its iconography in medieval devotional and theological literature, stretching back to St Augustine and Gregory the Great, and shows how an understanding of these traditions opens up a fresh reading of Piers Plowman. She challenges the consensus according to which the poem narrates an essentially positive 'education' of the will, and reveals instead a narrative of desire emerging from rebuke, loss and denial. This radical reading revolutionises our thinking about Piers Plowman, and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology, devotion, pastoral care, medieval textual theory and literary history.

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