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	William Langland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Langland is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.
		The tradition that Langland was a Wycliffite, an idea promoted by Robert Crowley's 1550 edition of Piers and complicated by early Lollard appropriation of the Plowman-figure (see, for instance, Pierce the Ploughman's Crede and The Plowman's Tale), is almost certainly incorrect.
		It is true that Langland and Wyclif shared many concerns: both question the value of indulgences and pilgrimage, promote the use of the vernacular in preaching, attack clerical corruption, and even advocate disendowment.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Langland (927 words)

	Langland, William on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grace abounding: justification in Passau 16 of 'Piers Plowman.' (William, Langland)
		Langland's 'corlew': another look at 'Piers Plowman' B xiv.43.
		Communism in furs: a dream of prehistory in William Morris's John Ball.
	encyclopedia.com /html/L/Langland.asp (526 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Langland (English Literature To 1499, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was born probably at Ledbury near the Welsh marshes and may have gone to school at Great Malvern Priory.
		His great work, Piers Plowman, or, more precisely, The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, is an allegorical poem in unrhymed alliterative verse, regarded as the greatest Middle English poem prior to Chaucer.
		Most scholars now believe that at least the A- and B-texts are the work of William Langland, whose biography has been deduced from passages in the poem.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Langland.html (380 words)

	William Langland's "Piers Plowman" \| Economou, George, Translator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature.
		Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy.
		Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.
	www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/536.html (219 words)

	Time traveller's guide to Medieval Britain
		Measuring 6 metres (20 feet) high and 69m (230ft) long, and stitched with wool thread on a linen base, its 70 scenes depict everyday incidents, such as bear-baiting, as well as crucial episodes, such as Harold being hit in the eye during the battle of Hastings.
		The tapestry has most likely been commissioned by William I's half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and is thought to be the work of English embroiderers, who are much admired for their skills.
		Langland's Piers Plowman, written in a Midlands dialect, attacks the political and Church establishment.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/guide12/part08.html (1356 words)

	William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version : A Verse Translation (Middle Ages Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Be that as it may, Langland is considered at least as likely an author as any other, and becomes a sort of stand-in, an 'everyman' for his time period.
		A few details of this Langland are known - he was a wanderer, a constant reviser (the poem goes through several revisions that scholars have designated as texts A, B, and C (and some argue for Z).
		Goodridge ranks Langland as a great English poet on a par with Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth and Yeats, as representative of his age both in topics as well as language facility.
	www.textkit.com /0_0812233239.html (633 words)

	William Langland
		William Langland was probably born in Ledbury, Herefordshire in about 1332.
		Langland was himself very poor and the poem provides a first-hand account of what life was like for ordinary people living in England during the 14th century.
		Langland constantly worked on the poem and further versions were circulated in 1377 and 1395.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORlangland.htm (371 words)

	Piers Plowman (William Langland)
		Langland is often ranked as a great English poet on a par with Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth and Yeats, as representative of his age both in topics as well as language facility.
		Langland conveys many moral issues that will always be part of human existence.
		Langland has an artistic touch that grabs hold of a reader and also manages to import a message.
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	§25. William Langland. I. “Piers the Plowman” and its Sequence. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Memorandum, quod Stacy de Rokayle, pater Willielmi de Langlond, qui Stacius fuit generosus et morabatur in Schiptone under Whicwode, tenens domini le Spenser in comitatu Oxon., qui praedictus Willielmus fecit lkibrum qui vocatur Perys Ploughman.
		Curiously enough, this line is omitted by C, either because he wished to suppress it or because he did not regard it as significant.
		It is possible, of course, that these early notices contain a genuine, even if confused, record of one or more of the men concerned in the composition of these poems.
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	End of Europe's Middle Ages - William Langland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Generally accepted as the author of Piers Plowman, Langland seems to have been an educated servant of the Church.
		Langland puts these characters in the midst of everyday life - so Gluttony, for example, sets out for church, strays into an alehouse, carouses and quarrels with other scoundrels, and finally staggers home, sick and drunk, in the dark.
		Many of Langland's views resembled those of Wyclif and the Lollards, even though he criticized them for their rebelliousness.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/bluedot/langland.html (163 words)

	The Poor Peasant
		Very few people cared about the poor in Medieval England and the lifestyle of peasants was harsh with no structured support services available to them if things went wrong - though a local monastery or convent might help though this depended on the abbot or mother superior in charge.
		It was written by William Langland about 600 years ago.
		In your own words but using the poem, describe what the life of the poor was like according to William Langland.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /poor_peasant.htm (209 words)

	Langland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Piers Plowman: The Prologue and Passus I-VII of the B text as found in Bodleian MS.
		Langland's implicit dialectic with social and ecclesiastical ideologies.
		A lucid introduction that sees Langland critical of conventional thought and institutions.
	www.unc.edu /~jwittig/51/51bib/langland.htm (190 words)

	William Langland : The Vision of Piers Plowman III (Early English Text Society Original Series) : Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Langland : The Vision of Piers Plowman III (Early English Text Society Original Series)
		William Langland : The Vision of Piers Plowman III (Early English Text Society Original Series) Reference Book.
		The fact that something so penetrating and inspirational was written and found such an appreciative audience that it has survived till now shows that the society then was not so bad.
	www.pagenation.com /an/0197220541.html (1262 words)

	Read about William Langland at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research William Langland and learn about William Langland ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		William Langland is a guess at the name of the author of Piers Plowman.
		The guess is supported by very meager evidence.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/William_Langland (343 words)

	William Langland
		End of Europe's Middle Ages: William Langland, University of Calgary: Features LES TRES RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY, "a classic example of a medieval book of hours" (which actually comes from the University of Chicago!).
		William Langland Home Page, University of Pennsylvania: Lawrence Warner's site includes a number of quality links including a much more extensive collection of E-Articles on Langland than those collected elsewhere.
		William Langland: The Vision of Piers Plowman, An attractive version of the text in the original Middle English.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/englishliterature/medieval-lit/langland-william.htm (289 words)

	More info about the poet: William Langland - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grace abounding: justification in Passau 16 of 'Piers Plowman.'; (William, Langland) (Papers on Language and Literature).
		William Langland is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English...
		Piers Plowman attributed to William Langland was a notable exception...
	www.poemhunter.com /william-langland/resources/poet-32905/page-1 (618 words)

	Luminarium Book Store: William Langland/Piers Plowman
		William Langland's Piers Plowman : The C Version : A Verse Translation
		This study argues that Langland and the 1381 rebels
		William Langland and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century
	www.luminarium.com /medlit/wlbook.htm (718 words)

	DIRECTORY - LITERATURE WILLIAM LANGLAND - ARTS AND LITERATURE WILLIAM LANGLAND
		»Langland, William - A brief biography at infoplease.com.
		»William Langland (ca.1330-1387) - Includes a short biography, essays, and a link to the e-text of Piers Plowman.
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	Buy.com - Piers, the Ploughman : William Langland : ISBN 0140440879
		Because it was written in the Midland dialect, the author is assumed to be from the West of England; however, its accurate portrait of London suggests he was intimate with the city and may have lived there for a time.
		Above all, the piety of the simple life is emphasized, and it is probable that Langland was himself a farmer, though because of the unusual number of extant manuscripts (over 50, the earliest version dated at 1362), it can be gathered that he achieved a certain amount of fame.
		His highly alliterative work is written in the popular verse form of earlier days--formally less forward-thinking than that of his contemporary Chaucer, and presumably appealing to uneducated readers (listeners), not to the courtly audience that Chaucer attracted.
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	William Langland (1331-1400)
		Very little is known of Langland's life apart from information contained in The vision concerning Piers the plowman, on which his fame endures.
		He may have been educated at Malvern Priory and the poem shows knowledge of both religious scriptures and the Malvern Hills.
		W.H. Auden, while living at Colwall, is known to have walked in the Malvern Hills reciting Langland's verse.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /langland.htm (334 words)

	Economy, representation, and the sale of indulgences in late-Medieval England (John Wyclif, Geoffrey Chaucer, William ...
		His behavior, obviously false but artfully defiant of blame, represents the behavior set forth in church councils that purport to describe the pardoner's actions.
		The narrative fluidity of the sale of pardon allowed Langland to devise an alternative to the binaries posited by councils and Wyclif.
		He recenters the act of receiving pardon onto the act of giving charity, imputing to pardon a measure of the idealism on which it was founded while grounding this idealism in a new paradigm of donation.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI3015369 (344 words)

	William Langland's Piers Plowman : A Book of Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Langland's 14th-century poem "Piers Plowman" contributes much toward debates on subjects such as race, gender, dissent, popular religion and culture.
		This collection of interdisciplinary essays aims to provide a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this seminal poem.
		Organized under headings including Langland and the age of Chaucer, the poetry of "Piers Plowman", allegory reconsidered and Langland through the eyes of theory, this book of essays explores the aesthetic dimensions of the poem, its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to reconsiderations of 14th-century culture and ideology.
	bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp /htmy/0815328044.html (180 words)

	PIERS PLOWMAN "B" TEXT by WILLIAM LANGLAND from Pickabook Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		English is a vast, rambling conglomeration of words and phrases from a huge variety of times and places, and every word has its own intriguing history.
		An allegorical satire on alliterative verse, describing the vision of the 14th-century poet who falls asleep in the Malvern Hills.
		Langland covers all aspects of political and theological debate, and echoing common sentiments in its satire of the corrupt church, especially the Friars.
	www.pickabook.co.uk /details/1840221038/display.html (189 words)

	Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales study questions
		The late fourteenth century -- the time of Chaucer, the Pearl Poet, and William Langland, author of Piers Plowman -- witnesses the rise of a new urban middle class made up of merchants and tradesmen.
		Recall that Piers Plowman was written in alliterative verse; William Langland is the other master poet of the Alliterative Revival besides the Pearl Poet, author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
		Keep Langland's Field of Folk in mind as you read Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, another example of Estates Satire.
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	William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version : A Verse Translation (Middle Ages Series)
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		Be that as it may, Langland is considered at least as likely an author as any other,...
		Economou's translation of the lesser-read C text is often poetically quite beautiful and always easy for a modern reader to...
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