Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages
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2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0246-1 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0246-1 (ISBN)
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.
It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England’s great Middle English poem by William Langland.
Focusing on Piers Plowman’s preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions’ representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem’s narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland’s mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, 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.
It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England’s great Middle English poem by William Langland.
Focusing on Piers Plowman’s preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions’ representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem’s narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland’s mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, 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.
Arvind Thomas is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
CONTRITIO CORDIS: THE LAUGHTER OF MEDE AND TEARLESSNESS OF CONTRICION
DREAMS OF AVARICE: THE ABSENT PRESENCE OF THE USURY PROHIBITION
RESTITUTIO: FROM RULE TO LAW TO JUSTICE IN COVETISE’S CONFESSION
SATISFACTIO OPERIS: MAXIM AND METAPHOR IN WRONG’S TRIAL
CONTRITIO CORDIS, CONFESSIO ORIS, ET SATISFACTIO OPERIS: FROM SYMBOL TO SIGN IN PATIENCE’S SERMON
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.03.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 580 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Kirchenrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0246-X / 148750246X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0246-1 / 9781487502461 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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