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The lost history of Piers Plowman

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  • "According to received history, the poem exists in three distinct, chronological versions, the A, B, and C texts, with most scholars agreeing that Langland completed the B textùthe version most familiar to modern readersùaround 1377-78. Challenging much of the prevalent wisdom about the poem, Warner argues that the received B text is not an integral poem aligned with a single author but, rather, two groups of manuscripts, each of which, because of scribal activities, takes on varying amounts of what we now call C version matter. Through close textual analysis, he reveals that the B text is a conflation of an ur-B text with a collection of passages that belong to the C version of circa 1390, demonstrating that the circulation of the C text actually predates that of the B. --Book Jacket."

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  • "Manuscripts"
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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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  • "The lost history of Piers Plowman the earliest transmission of Langland's work"
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  • "The lost history of Piers Plowman"
  • "The lost history of Piers Plowman : The earliest transmission og Langland's work"
  • "The lost history of "Piers Plowman" : the earliest transmission of Langland's work"
  • "The lost history of Piers Plowman : the earliest transmission of Langland's work"
  • "The Lost History of "Piers Plowman" The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work"

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