Pap. Three-volume set. Vol. 1, Text: xvii, 762 pp. Vol. 2, Part 1, Introduction and Textual Notes: xiii, 470 pp. Vol. 2, Part 2, Commentary, Bibliography and Indexical Glossary: vii, pp. 471-944. Mild edge wear and scuffing to wraps. Else very sound. This work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Volume 1) alongside both the textual notes (Volume 2, part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Volume 2, part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students of Langland as possible.

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Title: Piers Plowman: A Parallel-text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions [3 Volumes]
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1580441610
ISBN 13: 9781580441612
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 2nd ed.
Condition: Very good
Weight: 8.2 pounds

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This work--a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman--constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Volume 1) alongside both the textual notes (Volume 2, part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Volume 2, part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition available to as many students of Langland as possible.

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A. V. C. Schmidt was a Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, and specializes in Piers Plowman and Chaucer.

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