Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman is a Middle English poem written in the 14th century by one William Langland. Little is known about the author except that he might be from the area in the west of England. The poem...

In Piers Plowman, Will falls into a dream vision, which was a popular mode of alliterative poetic narrative, and has a vision of the conflict between the Catholic Church and Theology. Truthe,...

In the Prologue to Piers Plowman, Will falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a "deep dale" beneath the tower:  "A[c] as I biheeld into the eest an heigh to the sonne,/I seigh a tour on...

Piers Plowman is strongly influenced by the plague, or the Black Death, to give it its more famous name, which is demonstrated in its setting and characters. The Black Death  devastated...

Conscience, along with Reason and other abstract qualities, is personified in this medieval work of literature as a character in its own right. The personification is of course very allegorical, as...

Both Everyman and Piers Plowman are medieval allegories dealing with religious and moral instruction. In Piers Plowman, the narrator has a series of dreams relating to how to live a Christian life...

The exact date that these two important texts of English literature were written is by no means certain and is even now subject to much scholarly debate. However, generally speaking, it is...

Langland compares Jesus to a knight because knights kept order and defended medieval society, just as Jesus defended all humankind from sin. The knightly code of honor has parallels to how Jesus...