{"product_id":"from-lawmen-to-plowmen-stephen-yeager-9781442643475","title":"From Lawmen to Plowmen: Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In \u003cem\u003eFrom Lawmen to Plowmen\u003c\/em\u003e, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland's \u003cem\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/em\u003e and the flourishing of alliterative verse satires in late medieval England by observing the similarities between these satires and the legal-homiletical literature of the Anglo-Saxon era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike Old English alliterative poetry, Anglo-Saxon legal texts and documents continued to be studied long after the Norman Conquest. By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland's \u003cem\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/em\u003e and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. His conclusions establish a new genealogy for medieval England's vernacular literary tradition and offer a new way of approaching one of Middle English's literary classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Yeager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442643471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442643475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.51w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015","brand":"Stephen Yeager","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013929644287,"sku":"9781442643475","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc02bb7d-975d-4979-9397-3eaaa038a409.jpg?v=1767745650","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-lawmen-to-plowmen-stephen-yeager-9781442643475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}