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absolution, false

Adams, Robert

Alford, John A.

anticlericalism. See also bishops; friars; disendowment, clerical, in Piers Plowman

apologia pro vita sua. See Piers Plowman, lines and passages, C 5.1–108

Arundels (Thomas, bishop of Ely, and Richard Fitzalan, earl of)

Aston, Margaret

Athlone edition: controversy surrounding; disdain of scribes in; display of editorial process by; results of, as circumscribed by predetermination of versions. See also Kane, George; Kane, George, and E. Talbot Donaldson; Russell, George H., and George Kane

Ball, John

Barney, Stephen A.

bastardy

Becket, St. Thomas. See Thomas, St. (Becket, archbishop of Canterbury)

Bennett, J. A. W.

Benson, C. David and Lynne Blanchfield

Bible: Deuteronomy; Ephesians; 1 Corinthians; Psalmsx

bishops: Becket as exemplum for; titular bishops of Bethlehem, Nineveh, etc. (B 15); false absolution and supersedeas (C 9)

Bloomfield, Morton

Boethius

Bowers, Fredson

Bowers, John M.

Brewer, Charlotte

Bromyard, John

Burrow, John A.

But, John

Bx (archetype of B MSS). See Piers Plowman, B version

C reviser’s B MS. See revision, in Piers Plowman

capital punishment, in Piers Plowman and Deuteronomy

Carruthers, Mary

Chambers, R. W.

Chaucer, Geoffrey: and copy-text; knowledge of Piers Plowman; transmission of poetry by; works: Boece; Book of the Duchess; Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale; Canterbury Tales; General Prologue; House of Fame; Legend of Good Women; Troilus and Criseyde

Christ

chronology: and editorial crises; of versions of Piers Plowman (“Power of the Alphabet”)

citation practices, of critical editions

Cole, Andrew

concordances

conflation and conjoinment. See scribes: desire for complete Piers Plowman

conjectural emendation. See editing

convergent variation

Cooper, Helen

copy-text. See editing

Courtenay, William, archbishop of Canterbury

Cowen, Janet, and George Kane

Crowley, Robert

Dane, Joseph A.

Dante

Davis, Isabel

dialects: of A MSS; of Adam Pinkhurst (Trinity B.15.17); of B MSS; of Langland; of National Library of Wales 733B; thorn and yogh characters as potential indicators of; of Vernon MS; of XYHJ MSS

disendowment, clerical, in Piers Plowman. See also “poison of possession” passage

Donaldson, E. Talbot. See also Kane, George

do wel & bettre

Doyle, A. I.

Economou, George D.

editing: antagonism against; and conjectural emendation; and copy-text; Gabler-Kidd controversy (Ulysses); “materialist Shakespeare”; by medievalists; by recension. See also Athlone edition

Eggert, Paul

evangelism

final two passus (B 19–20/C 21–22): and Chaucer; circulation of, in booklets; descent of, from scribal B copy; as “Dobest”; editorial treatment of; identical appearance of, in B and C; N²/W~M agreements in; origins of, in C; and Pearl; presence of, in all extant B MSS; prominence of, in dating and interpreting Piers Plowman; as recapitulation of half-acre scene; as response to religious and social upheaval; RF/Cx agreements in; signs of early stages of revision in; textual distinction of; as thematically indispensable to B; unalliterative lines in

Fortescue, Sir Adrian

Franciscanism. See friars

Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.

friars. See also lollars and lollardy; Piers Plowman, characters and episodes: fraternal confessor of Meed, Sir Penetrans Domos

fyndyng. See friars

Galloway, Andrew

Gamelyn, Tale of

glossaries

Gloucester, Thomas, duke of

Gradon, Pamela

Grady, Frank

Great Schism of 1378

Green, Richard Firth

Greg, Walter W.

Grindley, Carl

Gwynn, Aubrey

Hales, Robert

Hanna, Ralph

hermits

“Heu quanta desolacio”

historiography, English

Hudson, Anne

Ilchester Prologue. See Piers Plowman, A version; Piers Plowman, C version

John Sheep

Justice, Steven

Kane, George; and E. Talbot Donaldson. See also Athlone edition; Cowen, Janet; Piers Plowman, A version; Piers Plowman, B version; Russell, George H.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn

Kynges sone of hevene

Langland, William: and authorship controversy; date of death; dialect of; as hidden behind multifaceted production of Piers Plowman; location when engaged in C revisions. See also revision, in Piers Plowman

Latin: absence of, in A; C lines of, conflated into WN of A; as place-marker by pre-archetypal B scribe. See also “Heu quanta desolacio”

Lawler, Traugott

Lawrence, St.

lemmatization. See shapes and versions

Lewis, C. S.

lollars and lollardy. See also friars; Wyclif, John, and Wycliffism

London: city politics of 1370s; and inhabitants’ anticlericalism c. 1371; as site of B production and circulation; as site of C production and circulation

lushburg simile (B 15/C 17)

Mann, Jill

manuscripts: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 733B (N/N² of Piers Plowman); Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.2 (Gower); Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16 (Chaucer/Lydgate verse); Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 346 (Legend of Good Women). See also Piers Plowman, A version; Piers Plowman, B version; Piers Plowman, C version

Middleton, Anne

Mohammed

Moses

Norton-Smith, John

Odo of Cheriton

Parliaments: of 1385; of 1388 (Merciless Parliament)

Patterson, Lee

Paul, St. (apostle)

Paul, St. (hermit)

Pearl

Pearsall, Derek

Piers Plowman, A version: as abridgment of B/C; absence of early MSS of; and Chaucer; date of composition of; dialect mixture of MSS of; as foundation of Langland’s medieval reputation; and John Ball; pre-1400 circulation of; RF assimilation to; as susceptible to destruction; witnesses to, single MSS: H; Ht; Ilchester Prologue; J; K; M; N; P; V; R; T; U; W; Z; witnesses to, groups: BmBoCot(H²); EAWMH³; Ht and Ilchester; RU(E); TH²Ch(D); UJ; VH; WN. See also Piers Plowman, lines and passages; revision, in Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman, B version: and Bx passages marked as superseded; censorship of; and Chaucer; circulation of; closeness of, to Langland; contamination of, by C; date of archetype of; datings of composition of; early circulation of; and “Heu quanta desolacio”; and John Ball; and London; manifestation of, in editions; MS rubrics of; risk to, as integral poem; scribal corruption of; stemma of; ur-B version of; witnesses to, single MSS: C²; Ht; L; M; R; W; witnesses to, groups: LR; RF; W~M. See also final two passus; Piers Plowman, lines and passages; “Poison of Possession” passage; revision, in Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman, C version: as a work completed by Langland’s literary executor; date of composition of; as first “complete” version in circulation; as instigator of B circulation; London production and circulation of; MS dates and dialects of; N² and pre-archetypal MS of; N² as witness to earliest stage of; politics of; witnesses to, single MSS: M; J; X; Ht; N²; witnesses to, groups: HtN²; OLB; PERMVA; P~N; X~Ch; XYHJU. See also final two passus; Piers Plowman, lines and passages; revision, in Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman, characters and episodes: Anima; Antichrist; Charity; Conscience; Easter; Elde; fraternal confessor of Meed; Grace; Harrowing of Hell; Kit and Calote; Gluttony; Grace; Hob the Robber; Lady Holy Church; Holy Church Unity; Meed; Pardon scene; Sir Penetrans Domos (aka Friar Flatterer); Peace; Piers the Plowman; Wit

Piers Plowman, lines and passages: A Prol.2/B Prol.2; B 1.79–84; B 1.100–101; A 1.129–30/B 1.138–40/C 1.139–41; C 1.14 α; C 1.174α; C 1.183α; C 2.81; C 3.190α; A 2.18–22/C 2.27α–42; A 2.194–95/C 2.245–52; A 3.47–54/B 3.51–63; C3.73–83; C 3.77–115; A 5.233/B 5.461; C 5.1–108; C 5.146–55; C 6.30–37; C 6.367; C 6.373; C 7.69–116; C 9.193–209; C 9.260–65α; B 8.6/C 10.6; B 8.14–17/C 10.14–17; B 8.62–63/C 10.62; A 10.197–204/B 9.176–91/C 10.283–89; B 9.94α; B 9.194α; A 10.213/B 9.199; B 10.297–308; B 10.429–31; A 12; C 11.267; B 11.416α; B 11.116; B 11.160–70/C 12.92; B 11.195; B 11.437/C 13.243; B 12.116–25α, 139–47α; B 12.169/C 14.109; B 13.103–4/C 15.110–11; B 13.277–83, 292–98, 358–456; B 14.137–39; C 17.1–50; C 17.73–83; B 15.340–56; B 15.417–28α; B 15.490–503; B 15.510–28; B 15.527–32; C 17.188–285β; C 17.236; C 17.232–33; C 17.233–49; B 15.570–72; B 16.270–73/C 18.286–89; B 17.320/C 19.300; B 18.320, 340–41; B 18.425–31; B 19.355–57; B 19.428–48; C 22.304–10; B 20.313–15; C 22.347, 363–67; B 20.380–82. See also final two passus (B 19–20/C 21–22); “poison of possession” passage (B 15.533–69)

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Pinkhurst, Adam

“poison of possession” passage (B 15.533–69): and Becket passage (B 15.511–28); dislocation of, in MS M of C; final C revision of; as instance of W~M > N² contamination; interruption by, of theme of evangelism; Kane-Donaldson reconstruction of; as loose-sheet revision matter; N²/W~M agreements for; intended insertion of, at B 15.343α/344; origins of, in early C version; prominence of, in dating, editing, and interpreting Piers Plowman; RF omission of

preaching

production-consumption spectrum. See work, as category of literary production

revision, in Piers Plowman: and B reviser’s corrupt A MS; and C reviser’s corrupt B MS; censorship as motivation; on fresh copies rather than on scribal B MS; via interlinear additions; lack of, in C; by lection; on loose sheets; of B/C into A; marks left by, on Bx; by paragraph; via repetition of lines; Rising of 1381 as motivation for; serial vs. random, in C; slowing down of; uncompleted. See also final two passus; Piers Plowman C version; “poison of possession” passage

Richard II

riches

Rising of 1381

Rolle, Richard

rubrics: authenticity of; at end of B 20 in LR

Russell, George H.; and George Kane. See also Athlone edition; Piers Plowman, C version; revision, in Piers Plowman

Samuels, M. L.

Sargent, Michael G.

Scase, Wendy

Schmidt, A. V. C.

Scribe D

scribes: desire for complete Piers Plowman by; “officiousness” of; and Piers Plowman as vital event; and tendencies of variation. See also Fortescue, Sir Adrian; Pinkhurst, Adam; Scribe D

sermons. See preaching

sexual ethics

Shakespeare, King Lear. See also editing

shapes and versions: and convergent variation; and conjectural emendation; as hindrance of Piers Plowman textual criticism; in Kane’s “Manuscripts and Versions” chapter; and lemmatization; as predeterminer of MS classification; and scribal nature of MSS WNK

sins, deadly

Skeat, Walter W.

spurious lines, in RF group of B

Stanley, John

Statute of Laborers (1388)

Staunton(?), John

Sudbury, Simon, archbishop of Canterbury

supersedeas

Tanselle, G. Thomas

Tavormina, M. Teresa

Taylor, Sean

Thomas, St. (apostle)

Thomas, St. (Becket, archbishop of Canterbury)

Tyler, Wat

Ulysses (Joyce). See Gabler-Kidd controversy

vernacularism

Walsingham, Thomas

Wells, Henry

were (“anxiety” in Piers Plowman and House of Fame)

Wittig, Joseph S.

work, as category of literary production

wolves: bishops as; in sheep’s clothing

Wrenn, C. L.

Wyclif, John, and Wycliffism. See also lollars and lollardy