"PIERS PLOWMAN" AND THE MEDIEVAL DISCOURSE OF DESIRE by Nicolette Zeeman ( 9780521122986 )

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"PIERS PLOWMAN" AND THE MEDIEVAL DISCOURSE OF DESIRE

By:

Nicolette Zeeman

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 August, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature No. 59

Pages:

328

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A radical re-reading of Piers Plowman that sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.

Synopsis:

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.

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Cambridge University Press

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