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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PIERS THE PLOUGHMAN
PART ONE: William’s Vision of Piers the Ploughman
Prologue: THE PLAIN FULL OF PEOPLE
Book I: THE TEACHING OF HOLY CHURCH
Book II: THE MARRIAGE OF LADY FEE
Book III: LADY FEE AT WESTMINSTER
Book IV: THE DOWNFALL OF LADY FEE
Book V: THE CONFESSION OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
Book VI: PIERS SETS THE WORLD TO WORK
Book VII: PIERS THE PLOUGHMAN’S PARDON
PART TWO: William’s Vision of Do-Well, Do-Better, and Do-Best
Book VIII: THE PROLOGUE: THOUGHT
Book IX: INTELLIGENCE
Book Χ: STUDY AND LEARNING
Book XI: FORTUNE, GOOD FAITH AND NATURE
Book XII: IMAGINATION
Book XIII: PATIENCE AND HAUKYN THE ACTIVE MAN
Book XIV: PATIENCE TEACHES HAUKYN THE MEANING OF POVERTY
Book XV: THE PROLOGUE TO DO-BETTER: ANIMA’S DISCOURSE ON CHARITY
Book XVI: THE TREE OF CHARITY AND THE DREAMER’S MEETING WITH FAITH
Book XVII: THE DREAMER MEETS WITH HOPE AND CHARITY
Book XVIII: THE PASSION AND HARROWING OF HELL
Book XIX: THE FOUNDING OF HOLY CHURCH
Book XX: THE COMING OF ANTICHRIST
Appendix A: AN ‘AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL’ PASSAGE FROM THE C TEXT
Appendix B: ‘THE POOREST FOLK ARE OUR NEIGHBOURS’ C Text, Book x, lines 71–97
NOTES AND COMMENTARY
Footnotes
INTRODUCTION
Page 9
Page 10
PART ONE: William’s Vision of Piers the Ploughman
Prologue THE PLAIN FULL OF PEOPLE
Page 29
Book I: THE TEACHING OF HOLY CHURCH
Page 35
Book V: THE CONFESSION OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
Page 74
PART TWO: William’s Vision of Do-Well, Do-Better, and Do-Best
Book XI: FORTUNE, GOOD FAITH AND NATURE
Page 138
Book XII: IMAGINATION
Page 147
Book XIII: PATIENCE AND HAUKYN THE ACTIVE MAN
Page 154
Book XIV: PATIENCE TEACHES HAUKYN THE MEANING OF POVERTY
Page 175
Book XV: THE PROLOGUE TO DO-BETTER: ANIMA’S DISCOURSE ON CHARITY
Page 182
Book XVIII: THE PASSION AND HARROWING OF HELL
Page 229
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