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• catalog abstract "Piers Plowman is one of the greatest poems of Middle English. In this study Britton F. Harwood considers it as an expression of a crisis of faith and, as such, a landmark in the theological and philosophical history of the medieval era. Harwood shows how the protagonist of the poem represents himself as one in need of a knowledge of Christ as present and existing. This kind of knowledge was elaborated in late thirteenth- and fourteenth century thought as 'notitia intuitiva': the poet wants, not a report of Christ, but Christ as an object of perception. Any conversion for him is consequent upon the vision of God. The action of the poem, then, consists in the poet's testing of certain human capacities for their ability to recover the vision of God. Following through each segment of the poem, Harwood charts the course of the poet's inquiry, showing how each vision advances the poet's search until he reaches the knowledge of Christ in remorse--suffering being the point where God and humanity meet. On this basis, Harwood suggests that Piers Plowman is the first Middle English poem to have been motivated by the deterioration in theological and philosophical foundations experienced by the fourteenth-century writer, as argued by Muscatine and Middleton. This is the first book on Piers Plowman to take the narrator seriously when he rejects moral instruction as a substitute for the knowledge of God, and to argue that the poem is authentically exploratory.".
• catalog contributor b3559253.
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-228) and index.".
• catalog description "Piers Plowman is one of the greatest poems of Middle English. In this study Britton F. Harwood considers it as an expression of a crisis of faith and, as such, a landmark in the theological and philosophical history of the medieval era. Harwood shows how the protagonist of the poem represents himself as one in need of a knowledge of Christ as present and existing. This kind of knowledge was elaborated in late thirteenth- and fourteenth century thought as 'notitia intuitiva': the poet wants, not a report of Christ, but Christ as an object of perception. Any conversion for him is consequent upon the vision of God. The action of the poem, then, consists in the poet's testing of certain human capacities for their ability to recover the vision of God. Following through each segment of the poem, Harwood charts the course of the poet's inquiry, showing how each vision advances the poet's search until he reaches the knowledge of Christ in remorse--suffering being the point where God and humanity meet. On this basis, Harwood suggests that Piers Plowman is the first Middle English poem to have been motivated by the deterioration in theological and philosophical foundations experienced by the fourteenth-century writer, as argued by Muscatine and Middleton. This is the first book on Piers Plowman to take the narrator seriously when he rejects moral instruction as a substitute for the knowledge of God, and to argue that the poem is authentically exploratory.".
• catalog description "The narrator in Piers Plowman: the object of his search, the form of his poem -- Mentality in the Visio: the burden of the law and the limits of reason -- The action of the third dream: division, ingenuity, and allegory -- The movement of conscience I: From Haukyn towards a ground for patience -- The movement of conscience II: suffering and knowledge -- Piers and his pardon.".
• catalog extent "xii, 237 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Piers Plowman and the problem of belief.".
• catalog identifier "0802057993 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Piers Plowman and the problem of belief.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
• catalog relation "Piers Plowman and the problem of belief.".
• catalog subject "821/.1 20".
• catalog subject "Belief and doubt in literature.".
• catalog subject "Christian poetry, English (Middle) History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.".
• catalog subject "PR2017.B44 H37 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "The narrator in Piers Plowman: the object of his search, the form of his poem -- Mentality in the Visio: the burden of the law and the limits of reason -- The action of the third dream: division, ingenuity, and allegory -- The movement of conscience I: From Haukyn towards a ground for patience -- The movement of conscience II: suffering and knowledge -- Piers and his pardon.".
• catalog title "Piers Plowman and the problem of belief / Britton J. Harwood.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".