The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman

  1. Joshua R. Eyler,
  2. C. David Benson

Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00132.x

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Literature Compass

Literature Compass

Volume 2, Issue 1, page **, January 2005

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Eyler, J. R. and Benson, C. D. (2005), The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman. Literature Compass, 2: **. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00132.x

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  1. University of Connecticut

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  1. Issue published online: 21 DEC 2005
  2. Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005
  3. Literature Compass 2 (2005)ME 132,1 -11

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Abstract

Piers Plowman is one of the most highly regarded late medieval English poems, although at times it can also be one of the more frustrating works, in large part because of its existence in three distinct versions (A, B, and C) and its complex transmission history. In this essay we examine the scholarship regarding the manuscripts and the scribes of Piers Plowman, from W. W. Skeat onwards, and we also explore new tools now available for the study of the manuscripts, such as the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, which promise to change the way we read, teach, and research the poem.

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