"Piers Plowman"

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Examines William Langland's 14th Century narrative poem. Social satirical aspects. Critique of society. Motif of the quality of life and faith. Themes of social injustice and spiritual salvation. The historical context and literary history. Ideas and narrative devices of the poem. Medieval influences on the author. Intellectual climate of the Middle Ages.

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"This research examines William Langland's 14th-century extended narrative poem The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (aka Piers Plowman) as a poetic exercise in social satire. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context and literary history surrounding the production of Piers Plowman and then to discuss the pattern of ideas and narrative devices in the text that tend to support the view that it is structured in a way meant to comment on society and the social behavior familiar and important to Langland, namely, a society in which the most important feature of the quality of life was the quality of faith, or the individual's experience of God.
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