 | Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages Subjects: Langland William 1330?–1400? Piers Plowman (B-text); Langland William 1330?–1400? Piers Plowman (C-text); Canon law in literature; Law Medieval in literature; Christian poetry English (Middle) -- History and criticism; Focusing on Piers Plowman 's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas argues that the poem's mobilization of juridical concepts not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists. Thomas Arvind : Arvind Thomas is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
