Secular Piers Plowman
Sponsoring Organization(s)
International Piers Plowman Society
Organizer Name
Jennifer Sisk, Rosemary O'Neill
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Vermont, Kenyon College
Presider Name
Jennifer Sisk
Paper Title 1
Langland’s "Marginalia": Obscene Comedy and Political Expression in Piers Plowman
Presenter 1 Name
Nicole Nolan Sidhu
Presenter 1 Affiliation
East Carolina Univ.
Paper Title 2
Piers Plowman and the Unintended Reformation
Presenter 2 Name
William M. Rhodes
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Virginia
Paper Title 3
Langland as Reformist Agent of Secularism: An Account from Girard's Mimetic Theory
Presenter 3 Name
Curtis Gruenler
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Hope College
Paper Title 4
Secularization and Sovereignty in Mum and the Sothsegger
Presenter 4 Name
Spencer Strub
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Start Date
17-5-2015 8:30 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 2016
Description
This session aims to consider the diversity of Piers Plowman’s lay audiences, medieval and modern. Papers address lay and popular approaches to the poem, the relations between the poem and textual traditions promoting specific lay reading practices, or what a text’s popularity says about literary value in the late medieval context. The panel features papers that bring theorizations of the secular to bear on the range of ways medieval audiences may have read Piers Plowman. How might we describe the secular reading practices of Langland’s contemporaries? How might those approaches to the poem have differed from, converged with, or been informed by devotional and other sacred reading practices? This session will be of interest to scholars of devotional literature, medieval reading, and secularity, as well as Piers Plowman.
Lawrence Warner
Secular Piers Plowman
Fetzer 2016
This session aims to consider the diversity of Piers Plowman’s lay audiences, medieval and modern. Papers address lay and popular approaches to the poem, the relations between the poem and textual traditions promoting specific lay reading practices, or what a text’s popularity says about literary value in the late medieval context. The panel features papers that bring theorizations of the secular to bear on the range of ways medieval audiences may have read Piers Plowman. How might we describe the secular reading practices of Langland’s contemporaries? How might those approaches to the poem have differed from, converged with, or been informed by devotional and other sacred reading practices? This session will be of interest to scholars of devotional literature, medieval reading, and secularity, as well as Piers Plowman.
Lawrence Warner