Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages
Description
Focusing on Piers PlowmanÕs preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas argues that the poemÕs mobilization of juridical concepts not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and todayÕs medievalists.