{"product_id":"piers-plowman-and-the-medieval-nicolette-zeeman-9780521856102","title":"'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire","description":"This ambitious work links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Nicolette Zeeman traces the history of psychology and its iconography in medieval devotional and theological literature, stretching back to St Augustine and Gregory the Great, and shows how an understanding of these traditions opens up a fresh reading of Piers Plowman. She challenges the consensus according to which the poem narrates an essentially positive 'education' of the will, and reveals instead a narrative of desire emerging from rebuke, loss and denial. This radical reading revolutionises our thinking about Piers Plowman, and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology, devotion, pastoral care, medieval textual theory and literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicolette Zeeman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521856108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521856102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.98d","brand":"Nicolette Zeeman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47136103989503,"sku":"9780521856102","price":127.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_edafa46a-0a95-4419-ac29-4c03fbfac44c.jpg?v=1755022355","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/piers-plowman-and-the-medieval-nicolette-zeeman-9780521856102","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}