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This ambitious work links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Nicolette Zeeman traces the history of psychology and its iconography in medieval devotional and theological literature, stretching back to St Augustine and Gregory the Great, and shows how an understanding of these traditions opens up a fresh reading of Piers Plowman. She challenges the consensus according to which the poem narrates an essentially positive 'education' of the will, and reveals instead a narrative of desire emerging from rebuke, loss and denial. This radical reading revolutionises our thinking about Piers Plowman, and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology, devotion, pastoral care, medieval textual theory and literary history.

Author Biography:

Nicolette Zeeman is College Lecturer in English at King's College, Cambridge.
Release date NZ
April 20th, 2006
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
328
Dimensions
152x229x19
ISBN-13
9780521856102
Product ID
2061315

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