Piers Plowman

The B-Version Archetype (Bx)

By:

William Langland

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive in Print

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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.

Author Biography:

John A. Burrow was emeritus professor at the University of Bristol, and the author of many studies of medieval literature, including Langland's Fictions.

Release date NZ

August 30th, 2018

Author

William Langland

Series

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive in Print

Contributors

Edited by John Burrow
Edited by Thorlac Turville-Petre

Pages

384

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 drawing, 2 tables

ISBN-13

9781941331149

Product ID

28340156

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