The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1 by William Langland
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"The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1" by William Langland is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem written around 1370–86. In a series of dream visions, the narrator Will searches for the true Christian life through medieval England's social and spiritual landscape. He encounters allegorical figures including Holy Church, Lady Mede, and the plowman Piers, while seeking to understand Dowel, Dobet, and Dobest. This mix of theological allegory and social
satire explores salvation, sin, and society through vivid medieval imagery. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Langland, William, 1330?-1400? |
|---|---|
| Editor | Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877 |
| Title | The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Plowman |
| Credits |
Produced by Mark C. Orton, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 43660 |
| Release Date | Sep 7, 2013 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2309 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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