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02953aam a22004218i 4500 001 95B5349C6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 180328s2019 oncb 001 0 eng 020 $a 9781487502461 020 $a 148750246X 035 $a (OCoLC)1029791327 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d NLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 055 0 $a PR2017.L38 $b T56 2019 082 0 $a 821/.1 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Thomas, Arvind, $d 1972- $e author. 245 10 $a Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late Middle Ages / $c Arvind Thomas. 263 $a 201903 264 1 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c 2019. 300 $a pages cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poetâs words and the lawyerâs 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 âmakyngsâ in Englandâs great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowmanâs preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versionsâ representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the âliteraryâ informs and transforms the âlegalâ until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poemâs narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langlandâs 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 todayâs medievalists."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Langland, William, $d 1330?-1400? $t Piers Plowman $s (B-text) 600 10 $a Langland, William, $d 1330?-1400? $t Piers Plowman $s (C-text) 630 07 $a Piers Plowman (Langland, William) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01716084 650 0 $a Canon law in literature. 650 0 $a Law, Medieval, in literature. 650 0 $a Christian poetry, English (Middle) $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Canon law in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00845938 650 7 $a Christian poetry, English (Middle) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859417 650 7 $a Law, Medieval, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994257 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210024824.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605010745.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95B5349C6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search