IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 108: Religion and Ploughman Texts
Monday 10 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Mary Carr, Balliol College, University of Oxford Annemarie Thijms, Trinity College Dublin |
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Moderator/Chair: | Darragh Greene, Trinity College Dublin |
Paper 108-a | Prophetic Preaching in Piers Plowman (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
Paper 108-b | Robert Crowley and the Ploughman Tradition in the Early English Reformation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
Paper 108-c | The Relationship between Priest and Ploughman in Early Tudor Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session deals with a wide range of ploughman texts in the English language from the medieval period to the early Tudor period. All papers focus on religious issues within one or more ploughman texts. Langland’s use of prophetic preaching is the topic for the first paper. The second paper deals with the writings of Robert Crowley in relation to the Reformation, and the third paper will look at the complex relationship between the priest and the ploughman. |