Piers Plowman is one of the most significant works of medieval literature.\ Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland’s iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class.\ E. Talbot Donaldson’s translation of the text has been selected for this Norton Critical Edition because of its skillful emulation of...
Piers Plowman is one of the most significant works of medieval literature.