Piers Plowman and the medieval discourse of desire

"This work is the first book-length study to link 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 completely new reading of Piers Plowman. She challenges the current 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 new light on the history of medieval psychology, devotion, pastoral care, medieval textual theory and literary history."--Jacket.

שנה

2006

שפה

English

סדרה

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

314

ISBN

9780521856102

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