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"Piers Plowman" and the Medieval Discourse of Desire

 

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"Piers Plowman" and the Medieval Discourse of Desire


by Nicolette Zeeman (Author)

 

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ISBN: 9780521856102

 

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A radical re-reading of Piers Plowman that sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.


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.


 

ISBN 521856108
ISBN13 9780521856102
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Format Hardback
Publication date 20/04/2006
Pages 328
Weight (grammes) 663
Published in United Kingdom
Height (mm) 228
Width (mm) 152

Introduction: trial by desire
1. 'Painful lettings': sin, temptation and tribulation
2. Powers of knowledge and desire
3. Studying the word
4. The word heard and written
5. Seeing and suffering in nature
6. Clergie and kynde in Piers Plowman
7. Imaginatyf and the feast of Pacience
8. A poem shaped by knowing and wanting.