Description:
By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland's Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.
Brief description:
Stephen M. Yeager is a professor of English at Concordia University.
Review Quotes:
'Yeager's literary-historical argument is powerful and marches on firmly to the fifteenth-century poems of the Piers Plowmen... It convincingly demonstrates the durability of certain Anglo-Saxon attitudes as they were annealed in the distinction of style.'