Description: This volume offers original readings of Piers Plowman and rethinks the genre of allegorical narrative in the Middle Ages. It presents five studies of allegorical narratives with implications for different aspects of medieval culture.
Review Quotes: "Zeeman offers significant and often surprising illuminations of Langland's poem by juxtaposing its most insistent structures with their parallels in adjacent discourses." -- Rebecca Davis, University of California, Irvine, STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER