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  • - Three-book set: Vol I (text), Vol II Part 1 (textual notes) and Vol II Part 2 (commentary and glossary)
    by William Langland
    £44.99

    3 volume set parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol I) alongside both the textual notes (Vol II, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol II, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students as possible.

  • by William Langland
    £54.99 - 73.49

  • by William Langland
    £45.49 - 63.99

  • - Dobet, et Dobest, secundum Wit et Resoun - Vol. 2
    by William Langland
    £36.49

    The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, - Dobet, et Dobest, secundum Wit et Resoun - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

  • by Thomas Wright & William Langland
    £30.49 - 30.99

  • - Concerning Piers the Plowman. Fourth Edition
    by William Langland & Walter W Skeat
    £26.99

  • by William Langland
    £27.99

  • - Text C. Together with Vita Dowel, Dobet et Dobest Secundum Wit et Resoun by William Lagland
    by William Langland
    £47.99

  • - Vol. II Text B
    by William Langland
    £129.99

  • - A Modern Verse Translation
    by William Langland
    £28.99

    William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman is a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed that remains meaningful today. This book is a new verse translation of Piers from Middle English which preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style.

  • - A New Translation of the B-text
    by William Langland
    £9.49

    This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, for its deeply imaginative religious vision, and for its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world.A. V. C. Schmidt's translation of the B-text is provided with an Introduction and extensive Notes which place the work in its contemporary setting and offer a full interpretative commentary on the poem.

  • - The C Version
    by William Langland & George D. Economou
    £20.99

    "A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation... The challenging gamut of Langland's language ... has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."-Allen Mandelbaum

  • by William Langland
    £10.99

    Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

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