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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 306: Piers Plowman and Poverty

Monday 12 July 2010, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:International Piers Plowman Society
Organiser:Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator/Chair:Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Paper 306-aPoverty in the C-Text of Piers Plowman
(Language: English)
Sarah Wood, University College London
Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Social History
Paper 306-bProtestants and Poverty: Piers Plowman after the Reformation
(Language: English)
Paul Patterson, Department of English, St Joseph's University
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Social History, Theology
Paper 306-cVoluntary Poverty and Involuntary Need: Will's Experience of Being a Poor Man
(Language: English)
Anne M. Scott, Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Western Australia
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Social History
Abstract

Piers Plowman, with its poignant descriptions and trenchant analyses of 14th-century poverty, has the potential to reframe our ethical positions toward poverty and poor people.