Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman

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Langland William
Society for Early English & Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET)
EAN: 9781941331149
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This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim that this can be determined with certainty in the majority of lines by examining the relationship between the best copies of the alpha and beta families of the B-version stemma. Past editors have attempted to reconstruct the authorial text by extensive emendation, but Burrow and Turville-Petre claim that the archetype was not nearly as corrupt as previously maintained. In Piers Plowman: The B-Version Archetype the editors have opened a new chapter in the study of the B-text tradition.
EAN 9781941331149
ISBN 1941331149
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Society for Early English & Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET)
Publication date August 30, 2018
Pages 384
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country United States
Authors Langland William
Illustrations 1 drawing, 2 tables
Editors Burrow, John; Turville-Petre Thorlac
Series Piers Plowman Electronic Archive in Print