IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 306: Piers Plowman and Poverty
Monday 12 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | International Piers Plowman Society |
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| Organiser: | Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania |
| Moderator/Chair: | Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania |
| Paper 306-a | Poverty in the C-Text of Piers Plowman (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Social History |
| Paper 306-b | Protestants and Poverty: Piers Plowman after the Reformation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Social History, Theology |
| Paper 306-c | Voluntary Poverty and Involuntary Need: Will's Experience of Being a Poor Man (Language: English) 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. |