Description William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century.
It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary on cataclysmic events such as the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the condemnation of Wyclif's ideas (1382) and the rise of Lollardy.
It is also one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, worth reading beside Dante.
University Of Exeter Press Piers plowman: a new annotated edition of the c-text, paperback/derek pearsall
